[Chancellor]

Quote by: Praxius There see... generalizations don't just come from Canada Nobody in my entire life that I have talked to, has ever said they started smoking because of an actor or a movie.... this isn't 1952 anymore..... Movies and Actors were not the reason for my father starting smoking. Movies potray real life.... there is still a good % of the population who still smoke.... to not have anybody smoking in a movie or to regulate a 2 hour long movie that has one guy in the background smoking for 5 seconds as a 17+ rating.... that's just silly. Heck, you gotta be 19 or older in Canada to Drink (18 in Quebec and I believe PEI as well) and 21 in the US..... so should all movies that have a few people sitting around having a beer should be 17+ rated? Pardon my "Canadian Socialist" attitude.... but if someone wants to take the responsibility of smoking or something else society deems as unhealthy.... then let them.... let them die off faster then normal..... allow natural selection to take it's course.... problem solved, regardless of their age.... If some 12 year old kid starts smoking.... hell..... that'll kill off the dumb kid faster.... who cares? Natural Selection for Parents when you think of it.... Teach your kids right and they'll live.... make them stupid, and they will die a stupid death. And I'm sorry, but I don't rate my movies, or judge them based on if they got someone smoking in them or not....... I goto see them for the story and the characters..... They could be smoking a cigg... a joint.... they could be drinking and puking their guts up... they could be surfing the waves, or having sex with hundreds of women in one night...... that doesn't mean I'm gonna revolve my life around those things....... I never did when I was a kid, I don't now..... What makes you think kids are more stupid now then when we were? Did you ever pick up smoking as a child? Do you smoke now? If yes to any of that, could you please explain so I can factor in your experience to my equations?

The kinds of things you're saying are part of my objection to the original poster's post (the original poster is a Canadian). I resent government and organizations like the one in question trying to protect people from themselves. The only reason for including smoking in the NC-17 rating is because it's politically correct to paint smoking as being some great evil from which children have to be protected.

Like you, I don't know anyone who started smoking because they saw smoking portrayed on television or in the movies.

Are kids today more stupid than we were? The more government and the political correctness police keep trying to protect them from every little thing, the more stupid they become.

Did I ever pick up smoking as a child? No. I was doing pot, other drugs and model airplane glue but I gave all that up when I was 11. Do I smoke now? I smoke pipes and cigars.