Clerks (1994)

Matthew Pereira: Angry Smoking Crowd

Quotes 

• Chewlies Gum Rep : You're spending what? Twenty, maybe $30 a week on your cigarettes?

  Angry Smoking Crowd : Yeah.

  Woolen Cap Smoker : Forty.

  Angry Smoking Crowd : Something like that.

  Angry Smoking Crowd : Fifty-three.

  Chewlies Gum Rep : $53 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 Hicks : 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 hate mongers 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 : Fuckin' Nazi!

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

  Dante Hicks : I think you're gonna leave now.

  Chewlies Gum Rep : You want me to leave? Why?

  [to the angry smokers] 

  Chewlies Gum Rep : Cause somebody's telling it like this? Somebody's giving these fine people a wake up call?

  Woolen Cap Smoker : Yeah, telling the truth!

  Dante Hicks : No, you're loitering and causing a disturbance.

  Chewlies Gum Rep : I'm a disturbance? You're a disturbance, pal! You know? Here! Now, I am a customer! I'm gonna buy some chewlies gum! All right? I'm a customer, engaged in a discussion with the other customers.

  Woolen Cap Smoker : That's right.

  Angry Smoking Crowd : Now, shut up, sir. Smoke my big fat cock.

  Chewlies Gum Rep : Yeah, see, he's scared now!

  Angry Smoking Crowd : Yeah, look at him.

  Chewlies Gum Rep : Because, he sees the threat we present! He smells the change is coming!

  Woolen Cap Smoker : You can smell it.

  Chewlies Gum Rep : You're definitely are the source of this area and we're gonna shut you down for good! For good, cancer merchant!

  [the smokers throwing cigarettes at Dante] 

  Angry Smoking Crowd , Woolen Cap Smoker , Angry Smoking Crowd , Angry Smoking Crowd : [chanting]  CANCER MERCHANT!