In an interview for the Cornell Sun, director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) attempts to explain the difference between pot and cigarettes.

Cornell: I read that before Clerks, you were a staunch non-smoker, and since I’m sure that [your comic book] "Bluntman and Chronic" was probably informed by your life at some point, does this mean that you didn’t consider weed to be smoking, or that you just ingested your weed in brownie form?

Smith: Yeah, I don’t know. When I started writing Clerks, I wasn’t a smoker, and then between the time I finished the script and the time we started the movie, I picked up smoking, which is stupid because I was about 22 at the time, and most kids usually have the excuse of peer pressure and I didn’t. I was just kinda bored at work one day, and there was a really horrendous storm out and people were still coming to the store in flood weather for cigarettes. So I was like, "If people are willing to leave their houses in this horrible fuckin’ weather, then smoking must be the best thing on Earth." So I tried it out and discovered that, oh it really was! [Laughs] So I started smoking regularly and whatnot, but in terms of smoking weed, I don’t know, I always separated the two. Marijuana tends to not kill ya, unless you get high and operate heavy machinery, whereas smoking tobacco has widely been proven to be a cancer-causing agent. So I guess the two aren’t quite the same. But I was never a pot brownie guy. I don’t think I’ve ever had a pot brownie in my life.

Cornell: Really?

Smith: I think I would want to keep my sugar and my hallucinogens separate.

Pic: Kevin Smith on the the cover of the Oct. '01 High Times

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