Cigarette?

I’m liking “Magic City” (set in Miami, 1959) better than the critics did.  Maybe say something intelligent about it someday, maybe not.  But what is:  so-o-o … refreshing about this show, is that:  Everybody Smokes.

Not just the badguys -- everybody.  Men, women, young, old -- they smoke;  get over it.

Nowadays, by some sort of Hollywood/Vast-Wasteland unpublished rule,

nobody is allowed to smoke onscreen

except serial killers and child pornographers.

And this stifling prohibition  is more suffocating than a roomful of stale cigars.

1959 -- it wasn’t like that.

1959 -- I was alive then, and I remember.

Sweet smoke …

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