Smoking and movies

Published on Wed, 30 May 2007 3:05 pm

According to introduced smoking restriction it is prohibited lightening of a tobacco product in movies, as this result increase number of smokers among children.

Now, movies can now receive an "R" rating for depicting a perfectly legal act.

Thing that didn’t totally fit with affirmation that namely movies serves as primarily force to encourage children tot smoke. There are a lot of TV programs that is smoked. Real cause is unsupervised access to television.

It is also interesting to be questioned how many well-intentioned anti-smoking advocates let their own children have bedroom TVs.

Today every child can cite chapter and verse why it's a bad practice. It can be presupposed that soon children will be obliged not to come nearer when 500 feet of the entrances to buildings, restaurants, offices and private homes there is used to smoke. Agree that this is in a way stupid.

It is not right to presuppose that prohibition of lightening up onstage or in movies will stop their production.

However cigarettes are legal product and usage of tobacco is a part of piece. Sometimes smoking play a key-role in movies. For example, imagine would be so full of emotion if Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night and Good Luck” will be without his ever-present cig; or the fate of the satirical “Thank You for Smoking” under the MPAA's new guidelines. Or the leg-crossing interrogation scene in "Basic Instinct" where Sharon Stone uttered the movie's best line: “What're you going to do? Charge me with smoking?”

At the end can be said that tobacco smoking is a single cause of causing so many car accidents or others.

It can be sustain with 100% assurance that namely it is a parent’s responsibility to teach kids about the consequences of harmful behavior they witness.