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Hollywood to take smoking into account when rating films
BillieTheBot
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Yet another victory for the Fascists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6646345.stm
All this serves to do is further advocate the idea that smokers are somehow bad, evil and naughty but don't take it from me, take it from this fucking idiot called Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Legal habit = unacceptable social practice?
And I bet this aresehole harps on about tolerance and acceptance about other people's life choices. Just not when it comes to smoking.
What about classic scenes in films throughout the years? Are they going to slap 18 certificates (or R ratings) over Dean, Bogarte, Sinatra et al. simply because they happened to be smoking a fag whilst making time-honoured classic cinema that has been enjoyed by generations?
Unfortunately, as usual, the fascists will get their way.
Discuss.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6646345.stm
All this serves to do is further advocate the idea that smokers are somehow bad, evil and naughty but don't take it from me, take it from this fucking idiot called Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Dan Fascist scumbag Glickman wrote:Clearly, smoking is increasingly an unacceptable behaviour in our society
Legal habit = unacceptable social practice?
And I bet this aresehole harps on about tolerance and acceptance about other people's life choices. Just not when it comes to smoking.
What about classic scenes in films throughout the years? Are they going to slap 18 certificates (or R ratings) over Dean, Bogarte, Sinatra et al. simply because they happened to be smoking a fag whilst making time-honoured classic cinema that has been enjoyed by generations?
Unfortunately, as usual, the fascists will get their way.
Discuss.
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otherwise pointless.
It's not very different than saying that violence in video games causes crimes; seeing someone smoke isn't going to make you smoke when you otherwise wouldn't, if you have enough brain cells.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/5252054.stm
By that logic, we need to put an age restriction on walking past offices, bars, pubs, clubs, restaurants and buildings in general due to the regularilty of people smoking outside them as a result of the ban.
hahahaha, classic
This is a fucking stupid idea.
Anyway, I think it's a silly idea, but then I think that a lot of censorship is silly.
Well, it's censorship in a way because it's preventing sections of the public from seeing it.
Like children don't see it every day on the street.
Makes you wonder... really does.
One thing it might help with is not having smoking integrated into a movie just to keep a cigarette company happy that they're getting their money's worth - for instance I think Sly Stallone was being paid $500,000 a year to smoke a particular brand of cigarettes anytime a pack was called for in one of his movies... cos they know he has a huge following and guys who like him will see that's what he smokes in the movies and buy that same brand.
Interesting counter-argument to that : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6157446.stm
Apparently they're trying to ban smoking while driving now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652787.stm
What I love about this article is that they said they hope to cut accidents by bringing in this rule, but have no evidence about the number of accidents attributed to smoking whilst driving! Probably because it's a figure as small as accidents attributed to insects flying into a car and buzzing about.
Fucking absurd and no surprise that it's supported by the extremist group, ASH.
For me, ASH is up there with Al-Qaeda, PETA and Combat 18. Anti-smoking terrorists.
And I resent the overuse of terms such as fascist and Nazi for people who don't like smoking. I had a meal disrupted the other day because of people smoking all around on other tables, that's just plain rudeness.
Smokers will accept the ban, for the most part it will be observed. It's been introduced in July so the effect won't be noticed until later in the year anyway when it gets cold. And the government will do everything it can to encourage people to secretly report those not complying with the ban, spying on each other now being a part of our 'healthy' democracy.
But, there has to come a point where smokers (and non-smokers) will see how far things have gone - and smokers get fed up of being treated like shit. Perhaps it'll be when they try and ban smoking in private cars - maybe then the millions of smokers in this country will just say enough is enough and carry on lighting up in the car.
I look forward to people demanding children are banned from travelling in cars (unless they are drugged unconscious perhaps).
You have to laugh don't you... :rolleyes:
The gun lobby would never allow guns to be banned in movies. Its bad for business. Guess the tobacco lobby is no longer as strong as it once was. :thumb: