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Anthony Daniels on the set of Star Wars, 1976 (lemmy.world)
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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that hypocrite told us not to smoke!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPlgKB9n8E

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the top comment on YouTube:

Fun fact: Anthony Daniels wrote this spot after doing some other PSAs. He told them he'd like to do an anti-smoking one, and they said that if he wrote it, they'd shoot it.

Perhaps he felt guilty, and he didn't want kids following in his footsteps