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Quote by: sdbest  
Tobacco companies, for decades, have colluded with Hollywood to have smoking portrayed favorably in movies. The tobacco companies do this because it helps sell cigarettes, and, more importantly gets young people to start.
"Smoking in movies is the most powerful pro-tobacco influence on kids today, accounting for 52% of adolescents who start smoking, an effect even stronger than cigarette advertising." [ Source]
Given that watching tobacco use in movies is so harmful to young people, should movies that depict smoking be given an NC-17 rating?
For more information on this issue, see Smoke Free Movies, a project of "Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Professor Glantz is co-author of The Cigarette Papers and Tobacco War and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. This project is supported by grants from the American Legacy Foundation, the Arimathea Fund of the Tides Foundation, and other donors. Earlier support came from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund."
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S. |
If you socialists up there in Canada want to legislate people's lives away and have your government controlling what you are allowed to see, hear and say, that's your choice (a ridiculous choice but your choice nonetheless). But there is no place for such socialism in the United States of America!
Life is a terminal illness that has a 100 percent fatality rate: maybe we should protect people from life, too!
The impact of these kinds of stupid government regulations is that children never learn to make decisions for themselves. Sometimes children need to be allowed to make their own mistakes so that they can learn from them; they need to be allowed to fall and scrape their knees once in a while.
But people like you make it sound as if there was no way children could have ever survived in the days before all your socialist laws controlling every aspect of people's lives.
When I was a child, television shows still showed people smoking - including talk shows like Johnny Carson's Tonight Show - and it didn't make children start smoking. We watched movies that showed people smoking and it didn't make us all want to go out and start smoking.