Rated M15+ Mild language and cigarette usage

[ExtraCheeZ]

It has come to my attention that people are trying to get warnings for movies that contain cigarette smokage... I can understand the reason why, but isnt this taking it a little too far? My biggest question is when will it end? Are we going to have warnings for every stupid little social squabble? Can you imagine moves 10 years from now:

"Operation turkey 2: The gobbling"

Rated M15+

May contain:
Minor coarse language
Mild violence
Ciggarette usage
Non efficiant fossil fuel car usage
Obese people eating macdonalds and not exsorsising
Images of mohummad
Images of president bush and references to the iraq war
Slight use of monkeys

Sure you may be saying "like that will ever happen, smoking is wrong and should be banned" but dont you see why smoking is so negative? Because people have made smoking socialy unacceptable, made smokers outcasts (that sounds melodramatic and is, I'm just saying its how things like this come about, if you think your making informed decisions, think again, your being brainwashed from young ages). So now they are trying to censor images of smokers.

Think about hybrid cars now, people are getting guilted into caring for their envirenments because they druive "gas gusslers" and stuff, its not a government consperiacy, its social conditioning, its a natural thing... eventualy are people going to censor pollution too?

Same with the obesity "epedemic". Social conditioning, blah blah blee blee.

Anyways, what is everyones thoughts? Should smoking be censored and why? Will it end?

[Hunessai]

The worry here is that the movies will influence parents' young ones in a way they don't want them to be influenced. The kid sees "smoking is cool," and the parent doesn't want to bother telling their kid that "smoking is bad." It's laziness on their parts.

[ExtraCheeZ]

Verily.

[eek]

Hunessai said:

The worry here is that the movies will influence parents' young ones in a way they don't want them to be influenced. The kid sees "smoking is cool," and the parent doesn't want to bother telling their kid that "smoking is bad." It's laziness on their parts.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[Osama Bin Laden]

Personally, if the kids old enough to get his/her hands on cig's, hes/shes old enough to know that its not a smart thing to do, and it even says so on the box. Though I know cigarretes arent the focus of this debate, my logic on that is adapdable to other circumstances.

[thaddius]

Let them smoke. It is all about personal choice and will power.

[nicknak]

In 10 years from now I am pretty sure Bush won't be president. Unless its Bush Jr. Jr.....but I do not believe there is one.

[thaddius]

Jeb Bush...

[earwen]

Here in my country almost nothing in movies is censored. Anyway, i've never felt like smoking after seeing smb smoking in a movie. I think it's not movies that make people smoke, people around have usually much more influence. The same is true for other things i think.

[Thor]

Slight thread necromancy... but Disney just banned smoking in all of their films. Well, five days ago, but still fairly recent.

[ShadowLynx]

Damn PC world ain't it.

The movies isn't the place where kiddies learn to smoke, it's off their friends and peers. Most teens just watch movies for fun and the hell of it, not to learn off their "heroes" and their smoking attitudes. Meh, I agree the root of the problem is bad parenting.

[Britney]

I quit smoking years ago, but when I see people doing it in the movies, sometimes I want one. Like really badly.

With people on the street it's a different story, because they always look like while smoking. But in the movies it's more appealing, more sexy. I think they should make the darn things illegal.

[ShadowLynx]

I've never been addicted to anything, so I wouldn't know about it.

I download all my movies now, they look in crap quality so the guys on it look like smoking anyway too.

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graveflower said:

I think they should make the darn things illegal.

No..wrong. Prohibition fails. All it does it put the distribution of a substance into the hands of the black market. The people who were gonna smoke would get their smokes anyway.

I say legalize everything and let personal decisions count. I'll still be Straight Edge, and will let others be happy with whatever makes them happy.