pixrox1 Review of No Smoking

No Smoking (1951)

Authorities swear that at least 96 million Americans . . .

[6/10 · 19 April 2022]

. . . have succumbed to slow agonizing torturous demises inflicted by the coffin nails made fun of during NO SMOKING. This is more than triple the combined death toll from War, Famine, Murder and Suicide since 1492. Both the producer and lead voice actor of this animated short would soon croak from the effects of chain-smoking the original demon weed. However, these clueless dudes had developed, nurtured and promoted such a weird, perverse and anti-social ilk of "humor" that they frequently tried to crack funny while trespassing through graveyards. Often class clowns grow up to be serial killers, but seldom on the scale of the nefarious Dizzy mob. That bozo Mr. G. over in Chicago got the needle, but he only had three dozen or so corpses in his cellar. Try to imagine how a just Hereafter treats someone arriving with the blood of 96 million or so once-living souls marking them as red-handed.