Cpl. Walter “Radar” O'Reilly [played by Gary Burghoff]: “Will it stunt my growth?”
Col. Potter [eyeing the short Radar]: “What do you got to lose?”
Radar: “Is it habit forming?”
Col. Potter: “Nah. I've been smoking five cigars a day for 45 years. Never got the habit.”— M*A*S*H, Season 6, Episode 1, “Fade Out, Fade In,” original air date Sept. 20, 1977, teleplay by James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, directed by Hy Averback
Talking about tongues
planted firmly in cheek! Just as M*A*S*H used the distant mirror of the
Korean conflict to comment on the Vietnam War, its writers realized that their
audience would know that, 13 years before, the Surgeon General’s report had warned
that smoking causes lung cancer and probably heart disease.
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