smoking may soon cause movies to get an R-Rated

[MrDingleDangle]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,121485,00.html

 

[bradruth]

That's stupid. The only place smoking looks cool is on film.

Ban it everywhere else instead!

 

[Kelvrick]

OMG....

EDIT: So bond films will be R now. That means they're free to have the bond girls go naked. Woot!

 

[emmpee]

Gee, let's ban fatty foods in PG-13 movies too. They could cause heart failure!

 

Wow, getting out of hand here.

 

[emmpee]

For what it's worth, this will NEVER become a reality. At worst, films will have to declare smoking in the little advisory box below the rating.

 

[Amused]

You can put this with the pissed off parents (over teachers having one glass of wine with dinner) from the DC field trip.

Adults must now ACT like children.

 

[Xionide]

You see this is the type of sh!t that put hitler in power.

-Xionide

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

*snickers at the source*

 

[Ness]

It will never fly, until smoking is banned from being shown on daytime television.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy
*snickers at the source*

Why? They list every source of theirs. So why are you snickering that it's fox news AND the AP???

 

[mugs]

lawmakers

Lawmakers have nothing to do with movie ratings, and they ought to keep it that way.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

so tell me again why you can smoke at 18 and drink at 21 in the US.... doesnt make any since.. you can have alcohol comercials but not ciggarette comercials

now you might not be able to smoke on film but you can drink on film.....

something just doesnt add up here.. LOWER THE DRINKING AGE or BAN SMOKING (btw i'm 21 so lowering drinking age wont help me)

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
so tell me again why you can smoke at 18 and drink at 21 in the US.... doesnt make any since.. you can have alcohol comercials but not ciggarette comercials

now you might not be able to smoke on film but you can drink on film.....

something just doesnt add up here.. LOWER THE DRINKING AGE or BAN SMOKING (btw i'm 21 so lowering drinking age wont help me)

You're right. That doesn't make a lick of sense, because drinking is potentially much more dangerous than smoking.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

You're right. That doesn't make a lick of sense, because drinking is potentially much more dangerous than smoking.

Meh. But moderate drinking is MUCH safer than moderate smoking. I see what you're saying though.

 

[DurocShark]

Barf.

 

[clamum]

If this happens it is the end of the world and Coke will taste like Pepsi.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Ness
It will never fly, until smoking is banned from being shown on daytime television.

Best argument I've heard yet.

Fox News likes to report a lot of "interesting" stuff that seems tweaked to finely polarize the nation's opinions. I wonder what other smoking-related stuff is working its way through legislature or similar.