Okay, this thread came about when I was watch VH-1’s “I Love the 80s: 3D” when they brought Morton Downey, Jr. and his chain-smoking habits making him look like a Dan Aykroyd character. And that got me to thinking: Aykroyd really loved his cigarettes and cigars back in the day. SNL, Blues Brothers, GB1 and GB2, The Rutles. All of them feature the old man puffing on one. Even in some publicity photos I used to see a tiny little one wedged in his fingers.
I got to wondering though if he quit after GB2 (people usually bring up that for the younger crowd they didn’t show the guys smoking, but they forget Ray has a cigar in about three scenes) because his work afterwards really doesn’t feature him taking a drag in the same capacity he did when he was younger.