[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I think that we can all agree that it is silly if there was no smoking in the LotR films as it is a thing you notice in the books and which is done and talked about several times in the books.

As Davem says it would be silly if Saruman was to say "Youre love for the Halflings taters has clearly slowed your mind"

But I think there is a fair point in chritisiesing Hollywood to use smoking to an extreme, a lot of times there is absolutely no idea in the people smoking. . .It does not even do anything to their charachter. Of course there should be room for people making movies like "coffee and cigarets" and people smoking in "reservoir dogs", but often one is left with the impression that the only reason the person is smoking is because some industry pays for it.