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How to Avoid Smoking in TV Shows
There's so much content out there this is achievable but then you lose out on a whole range of stories which if they are authentic to the time period where they are made or the time period they feature will have to have smoking. I think it wouldn't interfere with the emotional tenor of a scene suppose it's a very intense kind of an exchange and one of the characters for some relief lights of a cigarette would get ruined, he says. He adds: "You don't need to be reminded of that when you are experiencing this particular trajectory of drama or grief"
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