Keep cigarettes out of youth-rated movies?

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: Keep cigarettes out of youth-rated movies?

Should a movie be rated R if and only if one of the characters smokes a cigarette?

[Iggo]

1. No.

Come on.

[BurtWorm]

2. I saw two NYC buses this morning with that slogan on them.

My gut instinct is it's a bad idea.

[JonLP24]

3. I think Tom or Jerry smoked once or twice

My memory is cloudy but I think they did. To answer your quesion no. They are going to see someone smoke regardless of a movie. In a movie the smoking is fake, or atleast I think so.

[BurtWorm]

4. Those should be rated R for their violence.

:o

(Not really.)

[suede1]

5. Hell no!

[bunnies]

6. No. Thats just stupid.

It wont be long before the torch and pitchfork set lock all the smokers in underground jails anyway.

[yellowwood]

7. Paid Placements

Don't kid yourself. Cigarette smoking in films is not an innocent event. It's not a matter of retaining our "freedom." Corporations have been manipulating us for decades by paying the film industry to portray such stinky tobacco products as "glamorous." Many people have become addicted and have subsequently become less healthy because they succombed to this manipulation. Tobacco corporations have been some of the worst corporations to sell harmful products and to convince us that it was desirable. You probably already know that if a person is not hooked by the time he's twenty, he probably won't use tobacco, so he has to be enticed while he's young. It's a terrible product.

[BurtWorm]

8. Yes it is.

But you want a blanket rule to rate any movie at all with a cigarette in it R, even though violent films with no smoking at all in them would wind up with a PG or PG-13? This would mean no one under 17 would be permitted to watch most movies of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, etc., without a parent or guardian.

[surrealAmerican]

9. Other. We should do away with movie ratings.

They don't really tell parents what they need to know about a movie's suitability for children anyway.

[jwirr]

10. I have mixed feelings here. I hate the effect advertising has on our

lives and often movies end up being full of visual advertising. But it seems to me that censoring it will not stop it.

[Occam Bandage]

11. It's a rare movie indeed in which

nobody does anything of any sort that would be bad for children to emulate.

[Deja Q]

12. Sure. Then make promos targeting R-rated movies to kids.

Problem solved! :party:

[lightningandsnow]

13. Children and youth aren't idiots.

Most of them, beyond the age of 6 or so, actually have some critical thinking ability.

Plus, even younger than that, don't parents have the responsibility to talk to their children about these things? The state can't always take the place of a parent.

[SOS]

14. "The Life and Times of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"

Rated R, adults only!

[Fresh_Start]

15. no, but make sure the smokers have smoker skin

wrinkly and disgusting

[Obamanaut]

16. People smoke. Young people know it already. Seeing it in a movie

will not surprise them. They will end up making their own decision re smoking.

BTW. I voted no.