The smoking nanny

Locutus

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Films with smoking scenes may need adult ratings


Movies with smoking scenes should be slapped with adult content ratings, some researchers say.
While Canada and the U.K. have ratified the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, they are not yet enforcing it, according to Christopher Millett of London's Imperial College.


He makes the point, along with his co-authors, in this week's issue of Public Library of Science's journal's PloS Medicine.
The convention says all future movies with scenes of smoking should be given an adult content rating, with the possible exception of movies that depict the dangers of tobacco use or smoking by an actual historical figure who smoked.


More nonsense here: Films with smoking scenes may need adult ratings - Health - CBC News
 

SLM

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But then what will all the cool kids emulate?

You know, it's kind of ridiculous. We have a huge tobacco industry which holds influence with governments and then we have the anti-smoking lobby which also holds influence with governments. So they keep banning or restricting all the activities around smoking but won't come right out and ban smoking or the sale of tobacco. Seems to me they've been trying that with prostitution for years, and that's going oh so well.

Maybe we should just demand the tobacco industry face off against the anti-smoking industry in an ultimate showdown. Fight to the death, winner take all and be done with it.
 

SLM

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Didn't they do that back in the 60s or 70s?

This is old news, isn't it?

I don't think so. They might have stopped smoking on television around that time. But I don't think smoking alerts are one the things the nice man from Rogers warns me about when I'm about to watch a movie on demand, lol.
 

eh1eh

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Ya! Smokin'!.

 

taxslave

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Smoking is a serious crime according to the nanny state thought police. Just like s e x. However it is perfectly OK for kids to watch people kill each other on the idiot box. Go figure.
 

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Smoking is a serious crime according to the nanny state thought police. Just like s e x. However it is perfectly OK for kids to watch people kill each other on the idiot box. Go figure.

And I'm sure more kids actually play (violent and gory) video games than watch tv.

What to do, what to do.
 

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Smoking is a serious crime according to the nanny state thought police. Just like s e x. However it is perfectly OK for kids to watch people kill each other on the idiot box. Go figure.
What an interesting point. The world is extremely twisted, no?