Electronic cigarettes are sparking a social and legal debate

After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.

Karen Hill, Goodfellas (1990)

Electronic cigarettes are sparking a social and legal debate

Electronic cigarettes are sparking a social and legal debate over whether it's OK to 'light up' in places where regular smokes are banned.

Despite big differences between cigarettes and their electronic cousins, several states, workplaces and localities across the country have explicitly included e-cigs in smoking bans.

Cliff Phillips, a 61-year-old retiree and former smoker, and his wife, Vali, enjoy electronic cigarettes at their home in Cuba, Illinois

Some have clarified that the battery-powered devices don't fall under those bans; others are retooling smoke-free laws to include them.

E-cigarettes are plastic and metal devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a cartridge, creating vapor that users inhale.

They don't burn and don't give off smoke. Users call the practice 'vaping' rather than smoking.

Advocates say e-cigarettes should be allowed in places where traditional cigarettes are banned.

Others are sceptical of their safety and what risks second-hand e-cig vapor holds.

E-cigarettes devotees tout them as a way to break addiction to real cigarettes. They insist the devices address both the nicotine addiction and the behavioral aspects of smoking - the holding of the cigarette, the puffing, exhaling something that looks like smoke and the hand motion - without the more than 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes.

Industry estimates put U.S. sales of the devices and accessories at $200 million to $250 million annually.

But e-cig users are being lumped in with traditional smokers when they want to "vape" and are being asked to not use them in places where smoking is prohibited.

New Jersey is the only state that specifically bans use of e-cigarettes where regular smoking isn't allowed. Some local governments have banned the devices under their smoke-free laws.

However, in Virginia, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wrote an opinion saying that because e-cigs don't burn tobacco, the 'vapor emitted by an e-cigarette would not fall within the definition' of the law.

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The Food and Drug Administration announced plans in April to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products instead of under stricter rules for drug-delivery devices - news that was considered a victory for makers and distributors of the devices.

The U.S. Department of Transportation moved to ban the cigarettes back in February.

At the time they said the use of the smokeless electronic cigarettes on aircraft was prohibited and planned to issue an official ban this spring.

Meanwhile New York lawmakers are considering introducing the first state ban on the device.

Last year, Dr Edward Langston, of the American Medical Association said: 'Very little data exists on the safety of e-cigarettes, and the FDA has warned that they are potentially addicting and contain harmful toxins.'

Advocates say they provide a stepping-stone to quitting and give the sensation of smoking without taking in the carcinogens and 1,000 chemicals found in tobacco.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, who studied the device said the device had great potential in reducing the harm of smoking.

Similar: E-cigarettes look like slightly larger versions of regular cigarettes but while they're marketed as a safer device to tobacco there has been little independent research into the health impact

Writing in the Journal of Public Health Policy, they said: 'We conclude that electronic cigarettes show tremendous promise in the fight against tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.'

Nearly 46million Americans smoke cigarettes. About 40 per cent try to quit each year, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

But unlike nicotine patches or gums, e-smokes have operated in a legal grey area.

The industry has now grown from the thousands of users in 2006 to several million worldwide, with tens of thousands new e-smokers every week.

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Electronic cigarettes have three integrated parts: the nicotine cartridge, the vaporiser and a lithium ion battery.

The battery powers the cartridge and releases the nicotine by heating, rather than burning like a conventional cigarette.

The 'smoker' inhales a vapour which is then exhaled. It looks like smoke but is in fact water vapour.

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At the 1991 Oscars, GoodFellas was up against Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves. GoodFellas only won one — for Pesci as Best Supporting Actor.



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During recording of the film’s narration, Liotta made the sound man sit directly in front of him in the studio so that he could tell the story to someone.

The legendary Steadicam tracking shot through the nightclub kitchen was an accident. Scorsese (right, with De Niro), who didn’t even like using Steadicams at first, had been denied permission to go through the front door and had to improvise another plan. He decided to do it in one long shot to symbolise “Henry’s whole life being ahead of him, doors opening to him. It’s his seduction of Karen and it’s also the lifestyle seducing him”. The shot had to be redone eight times — not because of complications choreographing it, but because it ends on comedian Henry Youngman performing, but Youngman kept fluffing his lines, spoiling the close of the scene.

Tommy DeVito was based on real-life gangster Thomas ‘Two-Gun Tommy’ DeSimone, renowned for his violent temper. According to the real Henry Hill, Pesci’s portrayal was “90 to 99 per cent accurate”, with two notable exceptions. Firstly, DeSimone was a big, burly enforcer, standing 6ft 2in and weighing 15 stone. Secondly, the film states that Tommy was shot in the face so his mother couldn’t give him an open-casket funeral, but the real DeSimone’s remains were never recovered.

The are several anachronisms in the scene captioned ‘Idlewild Airport 1963’: Henry leans on a 1965 Chevy Impala, the Swissair jet is painted in Eighties livery and a Boeing 747 flies overhead, even though the plane didn’t enter service until 1970.

When Billy Batts and Tommy exchange “shoeshine” insults in the bar, Billy’s lips aren’t synchronised with the dialogue. He says “What?” and then “Salud Tommy” without his lips moving.

Scorsese’s parents both appear in the film. His mother Catherine (below) plays Tommy’s mother during the dinner scene. His father Charles plays the prisoner who commits the cardinal sin of putting too many onions in the tomato sauce. They came on to set every day, and Scorsese let them press all the gangster’s shirt collars, as according to him, only they “knew how to do it properly”.

In test screenings, the film received the worst response in Warner Bros history, with audience members leaving in droves, disgusted by the violence, drugs and language. Scorsese said, “The numbers were so low, it was funny.”

After the film’s premiere, the real Henry Hill was so proud that he went around revealing his true identity and boasting that the film was about him. The FBI had to remove him from its Witness Protection Programme.

Paul Sorvino nearly quit before filming, as he thought he’d ruin the film as he considered himself a “total pussycat” and a “softie”.

Young Henry (played by Christopher Serrone) is right-handed. Older Henry (Liotta) is left-handed.

When Tommy stabs Billy Batts (Frank Vincent), he clearly uses a rubber prop knife with retractable blade. He plunges it into Batts several times, but gets no blood on his hands or the knife.

Scorsese edited the scene where Hill is driving, high on cocaine, specifically for The Who’s version of Magic Bus from Live At Leeds.

In the first series of The Sopranos, Tony’s nephew Christopher (Michael Imperioli) shoots a bakery employee in the foot for making him wait. As he leaves, the wounded bread-seller yells, “He shot my foot!” and Chrissy replies, “It happens.” It’s a nod to Imperioli’s character Spider getting shot in the foot by Pesci a decade earlier in GoodFellas.

When he read Pileggi’s book, Scorsese says he knew straight away how he wanted to shoot it: “To begin like a gunshot and have it get faster from there, almost like a two-and-a-half-hour trailer. It’s the only way to capture the exhilaration of the lifestyle and get a sense of why people are attracted to it.”

When Janice the babysitter pulls an airline ticket out of her handbag, there’s a black bar covering it because producers couldn’t get permission to use the American Airlines logo. The company didn’t want to be affiliated with the depiction of drug trafficking.

During the scene where the mobsters are celebrating with the spoils of a robbery, Paul Sorvino told a different joke for eight takes just before the director called “action”, so the laughter you see is real.

There were five taglines used on various posters: ‘“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster” — Henry Hill, Brooklyn, NY. 1955’, ‘Three decades of life in the Mafia’, ‘Murderers come with smiles’, ‘Shooting people was “No big deal”’ and ‘In a world that’s powered by violence, on the streets where the violent have power, a new generation carries on an old tradition’.

Frank Vincent is claustrophobic, and had to overcome his phobia when playing Billy Batts to be shut in the car’s boot.

When Jimmy makes the phone call about Tommy being made, you can spot the reflection of the camera in the phone booth.

The pacy energy of the film was influenced by Scorsese’s love of French New Wave cinema, especially François Truffaut’s doomed love triangle classic Jules Et Jim. He wanted a similar voiceover to open, along with extensive narration, quick cuts and freeze frames. He called it a “punk attitude” towards film convention, mirroring the attitude of the gangsters in the film.

Sean Penn was considered for the role of Henry.

There are three GoodFellas nods in Swingers. Trent (Vince Vaughn) asks the Vegas cocktail waitress to meet him at the Bamboo Lounge — a reference to a bar Tommy and Henry burn down in GoodFellas. The scene where the boys enter the basement of the Derby is a recreation of Scorsese’s famous Steadicam scene. They even sit around a table discussing films and cheekily dismiss parts of Reservoir Dogs as steals from GoodFellas.



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Don’t consider yourself a GoodFellas expert until you’ve digested all of this invaluable trivia.

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The F-bomb is dropped 296 times during the film, averaging twice per minute. About half of them are by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci). After Pesci’s mother saw the film, she said she liked it but asked if he had swear so much.


Robert De Niro’s Jimmy Conway character is based on real-life mobster Jimmy Burke, aka Jimmy ‘The Gent’ or ‘The Big Irishman’, an ex-bricklayer believed to have orchestrated the $6m Lufthansa heist in 1978 and then killed 10 of those who took part. To portray him, De Niro plundered writer Nicholas Pileggi’s unused notes and obsessively asked the real Henry Hill for details about the real Jimmy — how he held his cigarette, used a ketchup bottle, reacted to various situations, etc.

When Pileggi pitched the title of his book Wiseguy (that GoodFellas is based on), his publishers suggested he changed it as they had never heard the term before — at that point, it was not widely known.


Horses’ heads were left in Ray Liotta’s dressing room, by both co-star Robert De Niro and Frank Sinatra’s daughter Nancy, as a Godfather homage and welcome to the world of Mafia films.

Driving to the set each day, Liotta listened to tapes of FBI wiretaps of the real Henry Hill to help him get into character for the day’s filming.


Pesci wrote the “Funny how?” scene himself, at Scorsese’s request. Pesci had once seen a similar incident occur between drunk mobsters in Chicago. During the scene, Scorsese chose not to film any close-ups, and packed Mob members around Pesci and Liotta, specifically so that you could “see the affect on those around them”.

For the famous montage scene set to Derek & The Dominos’ Layla, Scorsese played the piano coda himself during the shooting of each scene, so they could get the rhythm and movement of the camera right, matching up certain bars of the song with specific shots.


After Henry is released from prison and Paulie (Paul Sorvino) warns him off drug-dealing, Sorvino improvised the slap to Liotta’s face — so Liotta’s surprised reaction is real.

As you may expect, there are many connections between GoodFellas and The Sopranos. They share two-dozen actors, notably Lorriane Bracco and Michael Imperioli. Sopranos creator David Chase says, “GoodFellas is the Koran for me.” Christopher [Tony’s nephew] lists it as one of his screenwriting inspirations. And when watching films with Father Intintola, [Tony’s wife] Carmela mentions Tony preferring Godfather II to the original, and the priest asks Carmela where Tony rates GoodFellas.

Scorsese originally intended to make GoodFellas two years earlier, but when funding for his pet project The Last Temptation Of Christ finally materialised in 1987, he decided to shoot that and postpone the gangster flick.

The dinner scene with Tommy’s mother is largely improvised, including Tommy asking if he could borrow her butcher’s knife and the paw/hoof debate.


Paulie’s razor-blade garlic slicing isn’t actually very practical. It tends to brown too quickly unless you put it in lukewarm oil. It’s usually easier to mash it with a fork. Still, certain Italian cookbooks suggest you slice the cloves “GoodFellas thin” and to cook them “low and slow”.

For a film renowned for violence, GoodFellas has a relatively low body count of 10.

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Part TWO Tomorrow

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