That time C-3PO busted R2-D2 for smoking in 1983

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/15/that-time-c-3po-busted-r2-d2-f.html

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Current smokers will laugh
Former smokers will say it’s true
Nonsmokers will say you stupid people need to quit!

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They should do an updated social media campaign. The moment that the bulk of young people started associating cigarettes with losers and boring old people was the moment that Big Tobacco started buying into the vaping industry as a new way to addict kids to nicotine (and various toxic additives, of course).

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Is it just me or does it sound like R2 is humming (or the droid equivalent) a rough version of the Imperial Death March at the beginning?

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What will future smokers say?

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Tobacco Executive: “We have to fund an anti-smoking ad for kids, but we don’t want it to be very effective. Is there some character out there that people see as kid-friendly, but will come across as preachy and annoying? You know, to indirectly make smoking seem cool?”

The one nerd in the room: “Boss, I’ve got just the android for you!”

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You want to go home and rethink your life.

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I remember this!

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I remember this . . . but was it really 1983? Could have sworn it was earlier.

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From a distant GALAXAY!

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I like the Auralnauts remix edition:

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Came here to post this; happy to be beaten to the punch.

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“Dude, this is unbearable.”
Every person who’s ever had to sit through anything even remotely like this.

These are the droids you have been looking for.

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I love when 3PO says, “Do you really think…,I don’t have a heart?”

I wonder what that set is from. It looks rather elaborate for a 60 second ad spot, so I assume it’s reused from something. Or maybe it’s the “sci-fi set decor” storage room all spread out?

Someone should have told Jabba that hookahs are even worse:

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That’s a prescription space-inhaler.

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