Keep cigarettes out of youth-rated movies?

Should a movie be rated R if and only if one of the characters smokes a cigarette?

Come on.

My gut instinct is it's a bad idea.

My memory is cloudy but I think they did. To answer your quesion no. They are going to see someone smoke regardless of a movie. In a movie the smoking is fake, or atleast I think so.

:o

(Not really.)

It wont be long before the torch and pitchfork set lock all the smokers in underground jails anyway.

Don't kid yourself. Cigarette smoking in films is not an innocent event. It's not a matter of retaining our "freedom." Corporations have been manipulating us for decades by paying the film industry to portray such stinky tobacco products as "glamorous." Many people have become addicted and have subsequently become less healthy because they succombed to this manipulation. Tobacco corporations have been some of the worst corporations to sell harmful products and to convince us that it was desirable. You probably already know that if a person is not hooked by the time he's twenty, he probably won't use tobacco, so he has to be enticed while he's young. It's a terrible product.

But you want a blanket rule to rate any movie at all with a cigarette in it R, even though violent films with no smoking at all in them would wind up with a PG or PG-13? This would mean no one under 17 would be permitted to watch most movies of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, etc., without a parent or guardian.

They don't really tell parents what they need to know about a movie's suitability for children anyway.

lives and often movies end up being full of visual advertising. But it seems to me that censoring it will not stop it.

nobody does anything of any sort that would be bad for children to emulate.

Problem solved! :party:

Most of them, beyond the age of 6 or so, actually have some critical thinking ability.

Plus, even younger than that, don't parents have the responsibility to talk to their children about these things? The state can't always take the place of a parent.

Rated R, adults only!

wrinkly and disgusting

will not surprise them. They will end up making their own decision re smoking.

BTW. I voted no.