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Did Ben Kenobi Smoke In Star Wars?

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I need a question answered.  My childhood memory of Star Wars is telling me that Ben Kenobi in the scene below (where he presents Luke with a lightsabre) used to be smoking something like a hookah?  I'm sure of it.  Am I going crazy?  Take a look at this youtube clip which shows Ben not smoking.  Can someone help?

UPDATE:  A comment below from "Tony" said this:
Obi-Wan was originally supposed to be smoking his hookah, but the scene was changed during filming.

 I found this description in the revised 4th draft of the Star Wars script, as of April 19, 1976. Just after Ben and Luke watch Artoo's message from Princess Leia in Ben's hovel...

 "There is a little static and the transmission is cut short. Old Ben leans back and scratches his head. He silently puffs on a tarnished chrome water pipe. Luke has stars in his eyes."



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  1. welshslider9 May 2012 at 22:14

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  2. Tony9 May 2012 at 23:34

    Obi-Wan was originally supposed to be smoking his hookah, but the scene was changed during filming.

    I found this description in the revised 4th draft of the Star Wars script, as of April 19, 1976. Just after Ben and Luke watch Artoo's message from Princess Leia in Ben's hovel...

    "There is a little static and the transmission is cut short. Old Ben leans back and scratches his head. He silently puffs on a tarnished chrome water pipe. Luke has stars in his eyes."

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  3. Unknown1 June 2021 at 21:21

    I remember him holding some kind of long clay pipe, like gandalfs pipe, I swear I remember watching it on TV in the 80s, but everyone's telling me that I'm wrong.
    Mandela effect lol.

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