Mad Men and Englishmen

I have just bought the DVD of Mad Men (Seasons 1 and 2). Just hope I can find time this weekend to watch some episodes. When the series was launched on BBC4 in February 2009 Forest was asked to comment on the high incidence of smoking. My then colleague Neil Rafferty said:

"It looks really authentic - they have captured the look and the feel very well. Obviously, smoking, whether you like it or not was an absolutely integral part of life in the 1960s. They smoked in offices, they smoked pretty much all day. Television and film-makers shouldn't have to pretend life was different."

See The look of Mad Men.