Bret Easton Ellis

Like every fucking commercial I see is a guy smoking and it's going up his own.

It's going through the outlet and it's going up the conduit and then it goes into the next bedroom of the upstairs and there's an infant laying in the whatever.

And you just – there's a part of you that goes, oh, that poor –

kid and then there's party it goes wait a minute everyone smoked all the time and then they invented third-hand smoke and that's when i got pissed off that's when it gets into the curtains in the clothing of people and the exposed um service dogs to it and they all get lung cancer and i said there's no fucking way it's that big a problem and it's not but here's the deal i know you would like people to stop smoking there's a lot of stuff we would like people to stop doing but

But what you can't do, and I feel like we've done a lot of this, is you make up statistics to get people to stop doing things.

So I can say to my kids, hey, if you don't do your homework, you're going to get a brain tumor.

Sorry, Brian.

Brian has a brain tumor.

Now you're going to get a brain tumor.

It's not right.

What you need to do is you try to dissuade people from doing whatever they're doing.

But if you start lying, it's like what they used to do with pot.

They used to say, oh, you'll go crazy.

It'll make you insane.

It's a drug.

It's every bit as bad as heroin and cocaine.

And then people smoked and they went, oh, I guess you were lying.

No big deal.

And now you've created the second problem.

All I'm saying is whatever the topic is.