Of course he did...
"Easier said than done. Candy was a walking contradiction. While the specter of his father’s death pushed him to strive for self-discipline, it also released in him a sense of fatalism: If he was doomed to die anyway, he seemed to reason, hell, pass the potato chips. “He felt he had inherited in his genes a Damoclean sword,” says Carl Reiner, who directed Candy in 1985’s Summer Rental, “so it didn’t matter what he did.”"