Talk:Death sticks

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For a June 2005 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Death sticks

References for "death sticks" as obvious cigarette allusion: http://www.scenesmoking.org/reviewdetails2.cfm?id=130
http://www.epinions.com/content_64228593284
http://www.pontifexexmachina.com/archives/2003_01.html ("anti-smoking propaganda in film, how about the "death stick" salesman in Episode II?")
http://ruthlessreviews.com/movies/a/attackoftheclones.html ("Why on earth would he put an anti-smoking ad in the middle of Clones? Was this necessary? Especially in light of the fact that the actor delivering the anti-smoking message is none other than Ewan McGregor...")
210 results in google for "Episode II" and "antismoking"
And not to be discounted is that besides the patent obviousness of the reference, around the time Return of the Jedi was released, R2D2 and C3PO starred in a nationally broadcast antismoking television commercial: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/375.html --Fuhghettaboutit 22:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

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