Comments on: Smoking could be banned from all but R movies

By: Other Karen

Other Karen — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:14:50 +0000

I don’t know–smoky bars are part of many cultures, and movies would not longer be able to reflect that without an R rating?

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By: Clarimonde

Clarimonde — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:01:58 +0000

So can we ban all movies which portray driving recklessly and over-the-top car chases because that’s bad for your health too.

As is: drinking, unprotected sex, fighting aliens and kissing Lindsay Lohan.

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By: Pecarrie

Pecarrie — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:43:15 +0000

They probably feel it beter to do this because they have littel faith in people’s autonomous capacities, given how we’re raised to be sheep and all- what else would you epect, but for kids to follow the herd?
So yeah, if they control what the herd does and looks like, chances are, the kids may be les likely to do that.
Bummer- what they really need to do, is stop churning out cookie-cutter minds and fill-in-the-blank people- therefore, decisions made would not be the result of popular media and thus the media would not have to suffer from restrictions.

But there is also the point that media influences no matter what… but for somehting like smoking, why dont they get rid of the glamorous and fun and young ADS plastered everywhere– in magaaines that kids read, for example, and what not? That seems more of a culprit. Down to the nuts and bolts, though, it is family that influences most strongly- if your friends and family smoke, your going to have no problem starting smoking. Whereas if your family doesnt smoke and you thought it looked cool on TV and tried to smoke, your relatives would have a fit.
But it goes back to being autonomous and self-sufficient- making decisions for yourself only regardless of context- and that also is null…
Geez it isnt so simple…!

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By: anon

anon — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:53:35 +0000

I think its a good idea… its not likely that a fild is going to be rated R just because it has smoking in it. It is likely that film studios will only place smoking in already deemed R movies and just leave it out of anything else.

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By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:05:58 +0000

I don’t think it’s that big of a deal, how many PG movies really have smoking?

I used to smoke, and I started more because everyone I hung around with did. That sounds lame enough, but smoking just because a movie character did is even lamer. Now I have lung problems from a bad illness and walking past someone smoking can give me chest pains for days. That’s why it’s so evil, you are hurting everyone around you. I used to think my mom was just being a bitch when she would complain how bad I stunk and how it bothered her, I’m getting paid back for that now by karma.

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By: FF

FF — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:45:19 +0000

They they should put smoking in all movies and make everything R. Put that in their pipe (pun intended).

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By: Jenna

Jenna — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:59:40 +0000

Im my humble experiences, most of the smokers I know started smoking not because they saw it in a movie but because their parents/family memebers smoked. Not trying to down on parents or anything, but saying that kids take up smoking because they saw it in a movie would be saying someone becomes an aneorexic because they saw a pretty skinny girl walking down the street.

I agree with Ginny, I think we’ve all figured out by now that smoking is bad for you. I mean really, they’ve only been priting those warning labels on packs of cigarettes for what, 40 years now? What I don’t understand is why smokers are now the devil’s spawn….when did this happen?

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By: Mairead

Mairead — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:36:35 +0000

I’m not in favour of smoking, so limiting the use of it on screen where it could seem glamorous to impressionable youngsters is a good idea

It seems far more effective and sensible than banning all tobacco sponsorship in sporting events, where the point is to raise brand awareness, not to encourage more smoking.

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By: boobaloob

boobaloob — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:16:36 +0000

I saw Half Nelson recently, and Ryan Gosling plays a middle school teacher who is depressed and a drug addict. His character smoked, which was fitting. In fact, it would have seemed weird if he didn’t smoke. This is bullshit.

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By: zadzi

zadzi — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:08:29 +0000

Wow, this is taking things pretty far. I mean, how completely sanatized and odd, considering the somewhat crappy quality of many movies in general these days. Couldn’t they just have the ban on bad scripts instead, LOL?

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