WHO wants to stop movies from smoking

[ashdaburned]

WHO | WHO calls for enforceable policies to restrict smoking in movies

WHO wants movies that show actors smoking to be adult rated. (For US movies i would imagine only a "R" rating, not a mature rating)

The report also recommends that movie studios should:

• certify that they received no payoffs from tobacco companies to display tobacco products or their use
• stop displaying tobacco brands onscreen
• require strong anti-tobacco advertisements before all movies that have tobacco imagery

 

[JrdUK]

You can't censor smoking its apart of history

 

[maryjo]

You can't censor smoking its apart of history

Wanna bet? The rebel flag is history too. (in more ways than one)

 

[Moonbeat]

Suuuure...lets add another thing to the censored list. <---oozing with sarcasm

 

[gashin]

Anyone else notice that Hollywood is showing smoking less and less?

 

[LifeLongJoyRide]

Are we in 1996? I think that's the first time that I heard this conversation

 

[skullsoup432]

This reminds me of a story on my local news about sex offenders the other night. The State of Michigan is housing sex offenders and parolees in a local motel. During the narrators lead in for the story, they showed a guy from the neck down, standing outside the motel.
He as overweight, dressed shabbily, and had a cigarette in his hand which he was hot boxing, blowing out big plumes of smoke.


Smoking, overweight and poorly dressed. Hell, that's the trifecta of being a scumbag, aint it? Make sure the citzens relate it to child molestation, too.

 

[Symmetric]

In films that DO still have characters smoking, you'll notice that the folks who smoke are alwas the bad guy (unless it's a comedy, then it's usually an anti-hero, i.e. Jay and Silent Bob or John Mcclain)

 

[beckah54]

Why would a society that lets pretty much any sexual act be portrayed on the big screen, language so foul that I don't even watch movies anymore, care if someone smoked a cigarette. Have the moral values of this country gone that far south? I am beyond understanding the political and moral views of both Washington DC and Hollywood.

 

[ashdaburned]

Well, WHO is not Washington its a United Nations Agency.

 

[beckah54]

Thanks for clarifying that Ash. I wasn't sure who WHO was. Why would an agency of the United Nations take a stand on this?

 

[ashdaburned]

Because the campaign against smoking is not just based in the US. It's world wide. WHO is the World Health Organization. And they state that while developed countries have their smoking population decreasing, developing countries smoking habits are raising. They basically have a bunch of info on how to fight the tobacco industry, and how to not be fooled by them. How to go about writing the laws, and how to make the proposals on creating smoke free laws. Things like that. They are basically the FDA on the world level, but without actual authority. They make reccomendations, from what i got from reading through the site. They also don't like e-cigs.

 

[freedomendured]

I'm definitely against censoring anything. This is getting ridiculous. If you ban cigarettes you have to ban food as well, because just as many people die from being obese or having diseases related to their obesity as do smokers. I'd like to see McDonalds taken off the big screen in that case. Probably won't be happening though.

 

[ashdaburned]

The reason why is because people choose to eat bad food. Children and adults who don't smoke don't get a choice if their loved ones smoke, or if relatives, parents, friends or anyone they happen to walk by who smoke. I noticed the smell of cigarettes on someone's breathe today and it made me want to gag. Something i VERY rarely came across, and only those who reaked of smoked, back when i used to smoke. Now i kinda have a problem with it. No i'm not going to go and say you shouldn't smoke, but i understand how those that do say it, say it. However it seems to me, that if WHO could they would erase all knowledge of tobacco from the human race if they could. Burn the books sorta thing. Which is what censorship is really.
This being said. I don't think many parents really care, so long as they are not in children's cartoons.

 

[Ryle]

Remember the good ol days when cartoons had smoking?
Ya know.. the ones where a character would start to smoke a cigar that would then proceed to explode in their face? ... I miss those

 

[ashdaburned]

Remember the good ol days when cartoons had smoking?
Ya know.. the ones where a character would start to smoke a cigar that would then proceed to explode in their face? ... I miss those

LOL, yeah. They were funny. But still i agree that it shouldn't be in cartoons made for children. Now a more grown up cartoon like some anime i am fine with... Because not all anime is for children. (And I'm not just talking about the "grown up" ones either.)