{"id":1162,"date":"2013-08-22T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T21:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2014-01-12T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T06:49:37","slug":"bill-hicks-on-smoking-and-yul-brynner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hicks on smoking and Yul Brynner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1167\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=1167\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bill hicks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1167\" alt=\"bill hicks\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two great skits I found from Bill Hicks about smoking. I just kind of stumbled into these (mostly by looking at Yul Brynner&#8217;s famous commercial from the grave about smoking).<\/p>\n<p>The first video is a short bit about Yul Brynner doing a commercial &#8220;from the grave&#8221; about the evils of smoking (Brynner died of lung cancer in his early 60s), and comparing that to health guru and jogger Jim Fixx, who died very young from a heart attack. Funny stuff.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXFUaqMl3fc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And Yul Brynner&#8217;s original commercial in case you don&#8217;t remember it. (Lousy quality, I know).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNjunlWUJJI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, here is Bill Hicks&#8217; bit on cigarette smoking and all the shit he caught as a smoker from non-smokers, especially assholes who coughed around him anytime he lit up.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9ySCcnoo3c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s kind of cruel to come up to me coughing at me &#8230; Jesus, do you go up to crippled people dancing, too, you fucks?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then assholes who give him crap about second-hand smoke.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know what, if I don&#8217;t smoke, there&#8217;s going to be secondary bullets coming your way, because I&#8217;m that tense&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, the person who posted this video had to disable comments because Bill Hicks died of cancer and people were leaving pissy comments about that.<\/p>\n<p>These skits are obviously from the early 90s. Bill died in 1994. Wonder what he would think of smoking bans today?<\/p>\n<p>OK, personally, I have always gone to great lengths to not give smokers a hard time. I hear about the [cough, cough] stuff and the glares, none of which I&#8217;ve ever done (OK, I have probably glared at smokers smoking around children, but that&#8217;s a little different.).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, at the risk of coming off like one of the do-gooder assholes Bill Hicks is making fun of, I couldn&#8217;t help but watch these videos with a sense of irony. Hicks, a chain smoker, died a very young man &#8212; only 32 &#8212; from pancreatic cancer, which is known to be one of the cancers caused by smoking.<\/p>\n<p>In his skit, Bill says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll smoke, I&#8217;ll cough, I&#8217;ll get the tumours. I&#8217;ll die. Deal?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That line just jarred me. He did smoke, he did get tumours and he did die. At least he did it on his terms.<\/p>\n<p>So, not passing judgement, not trying to be a self-righteous dick, just pointing out the irony. Which I&#8217;m sure at a certain level someone like Bill Hicks could appreciate. I still find his stuff really funny. Honestly, I never heard of Bill Hicks until well after he died &#8212; maybe 10 years ago I first started hearing about. He was a funny, funny guy. What a tragedy he lived such a short life. But, he lived it on his terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two great skits I found from Bill Hicks about smoking. I just kind of stumbled into these (mostly by looking at Yul Brynner&#8217;s famous commercial from the grave about smoking). The first video is a short bit about Yul Brynner doing a commercial &#8220;from the grave&#8221; about the evils of smoking (Brynner died of lung &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Hicks on smoking and Yul Brynner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57],"tags":[94,200],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smoking-2","tag-bill-hicks","tag-yul-brynner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bill-hicks.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-iK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4380,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4380","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":0},"title":"Rick and Morty comes out against vaping","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"August 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote several years ago about a Simpsons episode that came out pretty strongly against vaping. 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