As one who was a smoker in the '40s and '50s, let me assure the person
who queried Stern's joke about Schindler's smoking doing for both of them
that that was a standard joke during the period.  Particularly during the
cigarette shortages of WWII.  If you were in a roomful of smokers, you
didn't need your own.  And let me just add that I think Jeff Clark's
comments on the trivial smoke juxtaposed with the tragic smoke are
right on the mark, very smart, very sensitive.  Norm Holland
 
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