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Smoking in movies; Discuss
Topic Started: Mar 16 2008, 08:08 AM (114 Views)
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All extracts from the BBC


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An anti-smoking group in Liverpool is calling for all movies with smoking scenes to be given an 18 certificate.

SmokeFree Liverpool told BBC's Radio 5 Live it wanted to see the change but the film classification board said the idea was "heavy-handed".

The push - backed by the city council - comes amid research showing young people pick up the bad habit from watching films containing smoking.

One city official said Liverpool may even act alone to restrict film access.

Andy Hull, the city's head of public protection and chair of SmokeFree Liverpool, said an adult rating on movies that depict smoking will reduce the number of young people lighting up.

"The international evidence...is that one in two children between 11 and 18 who witness smoking in movies actually experiment with - and therefore start - smoking themselves," Mr Hull said of recent research.



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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) already takes underage smoking into account but will now also consider adult smoking.

Descriptions such as "glamorised smoking" could now accompany ratings.

But anti-smoking campaign group Breathe California said the MPAA plans did not go far enough.

Some critics of smoking in films have said all films showing tobacco use should be given an R rating - meaning only over-17s could see the film unless accompanied by a guardian.




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In the UK, the British Board of Film Classification said it already takes "works which promote or glamorise smoking" into account when classifying films.

Simon Clark of smokers' rights group Forest said there was very little evidence to suggest that children were influenced by watching movies featuring actors smoking.

"Films have to reflect real life," he said. "In most of the western world, a quarter of the adult population smokes and I don't see why films shouldn't represent that, as long as it's not totally gratuitous."



Does it strike anyone as mildly ridiculous that they want to prevent kids from seeing someone smoking in a movie (something that is NOT real) because of how "damaging" that could be...when OUTSIDE the cinema the same kid would see REAL people smoking REAL cigarettes!!!
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It is ridiculous, kids only have to walk past any pub, club, offices or even hospital to see any Joe Bloggs light up. Also, experimentation does not necessarily lead to addiction anyway, which Mr. Hull’s evidence seems to imply. Also I find the ‘evidence’ overall somewhat hard to chew; I highly doubt that films featuring smoking are the likely factor in encouraging teen smoking. But of course half the UK’s teen population aim to emulate EVERYTHING they see in films; in that case all films featuring alcohol consumption should be rewarded an 18 certificate too, if the ‘international evidence’ is correct than it would certainly help to stomp out Britain’s underage drinking culture.

But of course smokers are the West’s modern day communists, only out to corrupt our precious youth. It’s an amazing shift from the glamorized images of smoking in the early half of the twentieth century to a culture that condemns smoking as a ‘social evil;’ an evil which is most likely responsible for global warming, obesity, panda shortages and the artist formally known as Prince. I’m bemused at how modern day films ‘glamorize’ smoking when compared to the Hollywood films of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. If anything there has been a decline in the representation of smoking, and moreover, smoking advertisement in the film industry. Hmm, perhaps most Humphrey Bogart classics should bear an 18 certificate then. :rolleyes:
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