Should smoking scenes in films be banned?
 

SmokeFree Liverpool is calling for films with smoking scenes to be given an 18 certificate.
This follows research showing that young people pick up the habit from film-watching.
What do you think?
Is this a good idea or PC gone mad?

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Re: Should smoking scenes in films be banned?
 

What a load of tosh, its getting ridiculous now

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in agreement absolutely nuts.:( whats next? artists on tour who appear onstage banned from smoking no doubt.:rolleyes:

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Its pc gone mad, I think as long as the actors in the scene dont have a problem with it, why the 18 certificate thats just daft.

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the world is going made, whats next any ideas:eek:

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think Keith Richards recently got some sort of warning about smoking on stage during an indoor concert ..........yep right ......"oh excuse me Mr. Richards , please don't smoke on stage , you are a role model for the young people "
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Have you all forgotten that we are passive recipients and all go out and act out whatever we see in the films?

Last weekend I went to see Vantage Point with my girlfriend. On leaving the cinema we broke in to Target Technics, built up our arsenal and committed terrorist attacks all across Europe. It was an average Friday night.

Must be fair though - I have a vice that finds scenes like this..

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertai..._070511_ms.jpg

...nothing shot of iconic. This would sound absurd to a get-smoke-out-of-media freak, they would see me as a subject of the media I take in. However I have responsibility enough to know that these are fictional film characters. I am fine to find them insatiably cool because they have no link to reality, therefore no impact upon my life or my actions.

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in MY pc world it would be illegal for any pub or bar to serve a single malt whiskey with coca-cola .........in fact with anything but a dash of water ;)

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Neat every time for me ;)

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public beheading is banned too
.... that puts the kybosh on all films about Henry VIII :rolleyes:

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Dear God, when will the brainwashing end? I am a non-smoker (ex-smoker) but it doesn't give me the right to dictate to others what they should do, watch, partake in or otherwise enjoy. I am so sick of living in a country that becomes more morally controlling with every passing day.

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Not sure anything but a ban would work, raising the age limit to 18 for smoking content won't work, because too many parents allow under 18's to watch them, I agree in principle that if it should be fact, that this encourages youngsters to smoke, then ban it, but it won't stop youngsters seeing people in everyday life smoking, I do though in general agree that smoking influences on minors should be kept to a minimum, I smoke, and dearly wish that my peers in my youth had not encouraged me to smoke, and that I hadn't complied, I would never agree to anything which would encourage youngsters to smoke.

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just had a look at the poll- theres always one.:rolleyes:

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Only if sex scenes, (including kissing), fight scenes, anything to do with warfare, stealing, drugs, eating none vegetarian meals, breaking wind, giving cheek to your elders, giving cheek to your younger's, racist, sexist and well basically anything that you might watch while eating pop corn are banned, then yes, smoking on the silver screen should be completely taken away from innocent eyes.

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I suppose 'love scenes' in films lead to unwanted pregnancies, and the spread of STDs.:rolleyes:

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...and the vietnam war wouldn't have happened if John Wayne hadn't won World War 2

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Well steeljack, my mate who I worked on the road with years ago was a scott, and each night we would end up on the single malt, I always used to put Island Spring in mine, at which my mate Jim did his tree, he used to say "good god John its taken a little scotsman 10 years to get the water out of that and your putting it back in again":D He took his neat:rolleyes:

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Why Margarat:D

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Not me cashy, notme honest:D:rolleyes:

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Traditionally unwanted pregnancies caused in connection to films was because of the antics on the back row seats in the Cinema not because of what was on the screen!
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Re: Should smoking scenes in films be banned?
 

Another crackpot idea from a crackpot council and the Roy Castle charity.

I voted no but it is a qualified no. Meaning that if the film is about modern times where smoking in enclosed public spaces has been banned then the film should reflect this.

However re-classifying films made before the smoking ban came into force or about a period where smoking was not banned because an actor happens to be smoking is censorship gone mad. Bogey wouldn’t be Bogey without a fag in his mouth. Neither would Lauren Bacall.

John Wayne didn’t win WWII [email protected]. It was Audie Murphy and for real.

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What a load of rubbish!
Even if they did ban it kids still see people everyday of their lives smoking and more often than not probably one of them will be a family member so it wouldn't have any impact.
P.C gone mad yet again i'm afraid!