# WKRP:Johnny vs. the smoking nazis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 1999, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290 "1999-12-12T14:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/41 "2008-04-13T21:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=blowero] The thing I remember about Johnnie Fever was that he was always drinking coffee. [/QUOTE] I don’t recall Johnny smoking on the show, but I do recall him claiming that free coffee was a constitutional right. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/42 "2008-04-13T21:32:09Z")
[QUOTE=Random] Yes, Bailey over Jennifer any day (or night). [/QUOTE] As long as there’s room for me in there. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/43 "2008-04-13T21:54:01Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] I seem to recall Maxwell Smart lighting up fairly often on “Get Smart”. [/QUOTE] Absolutely. If you notice , he always smokes twice - clearly a product placement deal… Anyway, it ended up killing him. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/44 "2008-04-13T22:12:05Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] On “The David Suskind Show” the interviews used to take place in the midst of great clouds of cigarette smoke. [/QUOTE] It was so thick it was like they had a fog machine in the studio. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/45 "2008-04-13T22:15:31Z")
Back to the OP, I don’t recall Johnny ever smoking a cig (tobacco or otherwise) on-camera. But there may be episodes I haven’t seen. @Motorgirl: See if you have Amerlife on your cable. I think they rerun it from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/46 "2008-04-14T19:26:05Z")
[QUOTE=PharmBoy] Absolutely. If you notice , he always smokes twice - clearly a product placement deal… Anyway, it ended up killing him. [/QUOTE] and carson \*\*and \*\* snyder, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/47 "2008-04-14T20:43:28Z")
I think I remember an episode of Columbo where he was smoking on a PLANE. I remember when I was a kid, it was always a big deal if we were travelling with my cousin’s family because her dad insisted on taking “smoking flight”. There were little ashtrays in the armrests of the seats. Now if I’m travlling out of town and I go to a restaurant, I think it’s really bizarre if the host/ess asks “Smoking or non-smoking?” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/48 "2008-04-14T22:17:09Z")
Here’s a 1950s [Philip Morris ad](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TzTGxY7gTCg) featuring Lucy & Desi in a very un-PC spot (“See how easy it is to please your man?”) and a spot with [Flintstones](http://youtube.com/watch?v=yJt2L7riSLE&feature=related) with more sexism. Funny that cigarettes were pitched mainly as a MAN’s thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/49 "2008-04-15T00:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] I think I remember an episode of Columbo where he was smoking on a PLANE. I remember when I was a kid, it was always a big deal if we were travelling with my cousin’s family because her dad insisted on taking “smoking flight”. There were little ashtrays in the armrests of the seats. Now if I’m travlling out of town and I go to a restaurant, I think it’s really bizarre if the host/ess asks “Smoking or non-smoking?” [/QUOTE] Whippersnapper. I remember when the “stewardess” passed out complimentary packs of cigarets before each flight. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/50 "2008-04-15T00:28:34Z")
And I remember reading this thread 9 years ago when I was still a lurker. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290/51 "2008-04-15T01:49:59Z")
Rob Petrie smoked upon occasion on The Dick van Dyke Show. I think some characters smoked on Mary Tyler Moore and on Rhoda. SNL also had smokers (perhaps not cigs, though). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-johnny-vs-the-smoking-nazis/5290.md?page=2)