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About this episode

God bless the Internet Archive. This is a video called Common Sense. Dating from 1982 and starring Michael Conrad of Hill Street Blues, this film is a piece of propoganda funded by the tobacco industry to argue against the notion that second-hand smoke is dangerous, and that banning smoking from public spaces interferes is unnecessary governmental heavy-handedness. The film features several hilarious skits in which smokers' rights are violated and nonsmokers act as all-around nudniks. As for Michael Conrad, he died of cancer about a year after he made this film. So much for common sense. -andy

• Release Date

  Apr 20, 2007

• Runtime

  13:38