A scene from Clerks 1994
Chewlies Gum Rep

You're spending what? 20, maybe 30 dollars a week on your cigarettes?

Angry Smoking Crowd

Yeah.

Woolen Cap Smoker

40.

Smoker #1

Something like that.

Smoker #2

53.

Chewlies Gum Rep

53 dollars a week on cigarettes?! Come on! Would you give somebody that much money each week to kill you? 'Cause that's what you're doing now by paying for this so-called privilege to smoke.

Angry Smoking Crowd

Hey man, we gotta croak sometime.

Chewlies Gum Rep

It's that kinda mentality that allows the cancer-producing industry to thrive. Course we're all gonna die some day. But do we have to pay for it? Do we have to actually throw hard-earned dollars down on the counter and say, "Please, Mr. Merchant of Death, please, sell me something that'll stink up my breath and my clothes and fry my lungs."

Dante

Now wait a second!

Chewlies Gum Rep

Yeah. Yeah, now here comes the speech about how he's just doing his job by following orders. Friends, let me tell you about another group of hatemongers that were just following orders.

Angry Smoking Crowd

Who's that?

Chewlies Gum Rep

They were called Nazis!

Woolen Cap Smoker

Nazis, that's right.

Angry Smoking Crowd

****in' Nazi!

Chewlies Gum Rep

Yeah, and they practically wiped an entire nation of people off the Earth, just like your cigarettes are doing now.

In this scene

Chewlies Gum Rep Scott Schiaffo
Woolen Cap Smoker Walt Flanagan

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