WHO Wants Film Industry Held Accountable For Promoting Smoking To Kids

[cookiebun]

WHO Wants Film Industry Held Accountable For Promoting Smoking To Kids

Talks about ecigs as well.

 

[x-smok3]

That is an interesting article and I am glad to see a positive portrayal of E-cigarettes. I am going to give the unpopular view of censoring entertainment mediums for the sake of the children. I don't really have a problem with giving an adult rating to films depicting smoking; however the niconazis go too far when they are resorting to blackmail in order to force film makers to comply. I am not a fan of the rampant violence, sex, and language in movies that children see either, however ultimately they are pandering to the majority who pay to see it. I as a parent am responsible for what my children watch. Ratings yes...government censorship no! I am no fan of the "it takes a village" approach to child rearing. It has gotten to where every let me tell you how you should live activist pulls the save the children card to force legislation (including E-cig bans) and I am sick to death of it. Parents raise your kids and leave me alone!!

 

[Chasm]

"The vapor is exactly like smoke and ...."

No No No!:
Vapor is not smoke.
vaping is not smoking.


"some of the most endearing characters are smoking cigarettes...."

Excellent! We have to applaud anti-denormalization.

 

[Vocalek]

Chasm, I left a comment (Vapor is not smoke) awaiting moderation. Another issue involved here is that WHO apparently has never heard of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Citizens of the United States have the right of free speech.

 

[RippleInStillWater]

I hate it when people pretend vices don't exist in real life and they shouldn't be portrayed on the screen or stage -- smoking happens whether you like it or not and it does provide pleasure, the sanitization of our media is already gone way too far compared to the way it was 30 years ago. Jeez, we don't even see the dead soldiers coming home now and I distinctly remember the true horrors of war being depicted nightly on the news during Vietnam. I mean, even Spielberg took the guns out of the hands of the Feds in the ET reissue because he 'didn't want to scare the kids' -- what bs!!! The only thing that they pretend to protect is our guilty consciences.........

 

[Vocalek]

My comment has been approved: Why Is Always Someone Else Responsible - Forum Thread

 

[rothenbj]

They should be held accountable for promoting smoking, as well as drinking, violence, sex, robbery, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary, driving aggressively, and eating unhealthy food as well as a done of other visual effects that may effect the thinking of our youth. Why not just make movies like The Sound of Music and Bambi (darn, every time I mention Bambi, I flash to Bambi meets Godzilla (Bambi Meets Godzilla - YouTube, for those too young to know what
I'm talking about))?

 

[DC2]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I want someone to figure out what's best for me and my family.
And more importantly, I want THEM to help me raise my children the way THEY see fit.

Well, I don't have any children, but if I did....

And I really want THEM to punish me in any way they determine necessary for my failure to comply.
Because how else will I properly learn to follow the approved path?

Yeah, I'm having a bad day.

 

[RippleInStillWater]

And please tell me about your religion, I want to to know so frakkin' badly!!!!

When oh when will people live and let live?!?!?!? Sigh.........

 

[mostlyclassics]

Here's a particularly egregious example of airbrushing history, from TheChap dot net:

A museum has doctored an image of Winston Churchill to make it more palatable to a contemporary audience. The original image, in which Churchill makes a V for victory sign with his hand while a half-smoked cigar pokes out of the corner of his mouth, has been airbrushed to remove the cigar entirely. The doctored image hangs over the main entrance to The Winston Churchill’s Britain at War Experience in London.

 

[Vocalek]

I had occasion less than a year ago to visit the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum located in downtown Washington DC (there is another newer A&S Museum located near Dulles airport.)

I was pleasantly suprised to see that the photos of famous aviators had not been doctored. Many were holding a cigarette or had a cigarette in their mouths.

History should not be revised to promote any social agenda.


Last I had heard, commercial airline pilots were not being held to the no-smoking on passenger flights rules. Has that changed? They were allowed to smoke during flight to protect passenger safety. I understand this perfectly, since without nicotine my driving skills match those of someone who just drank a six-pack.

 

[rothenbj]

Without the cigar, Churchill flashed me to this-

 

[Vocalek]

They should be held accountable for promoting smoking, as well as drinking, violence, sex, robbery, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary, driving aggressively, and eating unhealthy food as well as a done of other visual effects that may effect the thinking of our youth. Why not just make movies like The Sound of Music and Bambi (darn, every time I mention Bambi, I flash to Bambi meets Godzilla (Bambi Meets Godzilla - YouTube, for those too young to know what
I'm talking about))?

No, no, no, Jim! The evil hunter shoots Bambi's mother. No child should be put through viewing that.

And in the Sound of Music, there is always the lurking threat of the evil Nasties in the background.

The only answer to save the children is to ban movies and TV altogether. And books, too. Didn't you ever fill up your Huggies after your parents read you some of the scary Brothers Grimm stories?

 

[cookiebun]

More hysteria courtesy of The Guardian:
Films that 'encourage smoking' claim £338m in UK tax credits | Society | The Observer

 

[ByStander1]

Here's a particularly egregious example of airbrushing history, from TheChap dot net:

"What would the mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and wives know of the heroism, the suffering, the brave deeds, the crippling challenges if [journalists] didn't tell them and take images of those moments? What would future generations know? The dramatic, sobering, and often inspiring pictures ... are evidence enough that times of war need to be recorded and remembered." [from an interview with Walter Cronkite]

That was Churchill's choice in that moment. Isn't that the point of having the exhibit in the first place: His choices?

Do they have any photos in the exhibit of Hitler with a cigar? Seems like he was taking nutritional supplements before they were popular, and he was not a tobacco user.

Disgusting.

Note: Here's the exhibit's website.

Received this response from the Exhibit:

Good Afternoon,
No, the canvas we had was returned and replaced with a copy of the original
photo.
Sincerely
Janet Rayment

the retouch/redone is no longer on display!