With smoking declining on screen, experts turn attention to alcohol

[AndriaD]

Censorship in the arts is dangerous. We already have too much of it.

I don't enjoy violent movies in general, so I almost always avoid them. I even like to complain that it's often used as a cheap way to draw a crowd, and that I wish there were more movies that don't just include it gratuitously. But care needs to be taken not to cross the line of censorship in reaction to fears of it's negative societal influence.

I still to this day, cannot believe that we actually insist on keeping "bad language" away from the ears of minors, when they watch movies and listen to songs. It's counter productive socially to do so, and it takes a bite out of free artistic expression.

True... but when my son was 12 and I confiscated his "Limp Bizkit" CD, it was to keep it away from MY ears! He'd heard plenty of 4 letter words by then, but MY ears could no longer tolerate the F-bomb every other word accompanied by that rap crap. Either, by itself, was bad enough, but together? I wanted to go find Limp Bizkit and put them to death personally!

Andria

 

[skoony]

Actually, in America, alcohol has been under the gun for a long time -- in Russia, and some places in Europe, nothing at all is thought of having a drink at work -- in America, that would get you fired. But it's more because of these nannies, I think, than anything "political" -- the 12-step groups' insistence that "once an addict, always an addict" is very pervasive in America, along with the [erroneous] moral judgment that if you're an addict, you're just BAAAAAAAAAD, you have some moral failing that renders you ineligible for anything.

Anyone see Letterman and Bill Murray chugging on a bottle of vodka last night?

Andria

you have to realize ANTZ are not just anti-tobacco.
they are anti alcohol,drugs and food and any social behavior
that allows us to make up our own minds.
any where society goes to socialize must be forbidden.
regards
mike

 

[Kent C]

I figure all the 'hits' on the gross lung/throat pics were hits by non-smokers and sent to relatives or 'friends' who smoked, not by smokers themselves. After that didn't work at getting someone to stop smoking, no more hits on those sites.

OR, it was all the hits from them being posted here, to show how low the ANTZ would go.