In short: They want to make it so that any movie that contains people smoking gets an instant R. Something about getting kids to not want to smoke.
So someone smoking in a movie makes a kid want to smoke, but the dozens of smokers that AverageJoeTeen is likely to see every day whilst walking down the street don’t?
My parents both smoke like chimneys, and if anything, that makes me want to smoke LESS.
Censorship people going nuts. This is predictable considering the fuss people keep making about media and the rest. Its all about diverting accountability to something people feel safe about.
Bloody hell… the parents leave the actual parenting to the TV, then have the gall to complain about the TV giving their children bad habits. :-/ Is paying a little attention too much to hope for nowadays?
“Now now little Timmy, your mother smokes because she loves you and wants to DIE of LUNG CANCER and doesn’t want you to leave this mortal coil so soon, but you’ll just be alone after I die off from this cigar…”
It might happen, but it won’t last long. At this time, people even smoke in movies rated G. If they pass the law, movie revenues will hit rock bottom, since movies with smoking will all be rated R, thus causing less people to see 'em in theatres.
Gandalf, Bilbo & the other hobits, and even Aragorn, smoke too, so kids shouldn’t watch LOTR. Oh nice.
BTW, I think this law will actually do people some good. I read that in Holland (or somewhere close) they banned the presence of young adults smoking in ciggarette ads and within a few years the amount of teenagers smoking fell some 25%.
HAHAHAHAHA! That’s funny. Only in America and possibly Europe do they always use TV, video games, and music as scapegoats for all the wrongs people’s kids commit.
The thing that bugs me is that the government is trying to teach us more morals than parents. Let the idiots do what they want. They want to smoke and die young? Be my guest.