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MPAA - No Smoking On Screen?

by Bijhan Al-Attack

Cruella DeVilleThe Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is considering a resolution that would give an automatic R rating to any film depicting a character smoking due to the bad example it sets for children.

This is so wearily silly.

Did anyone stop to consider that this would mean children could no longer enjoy the Disney classic 101 Dalmatians? Cruella DeVille was smoking throughout that entire film! Anti-Smoking ads depicting people holding lit cigarettes would have to be yanked from the air as well.

As a fiction writer, I know that smoking can sometimes be a strong literary tool for character development, conveying extreme stress, or creating parallels between seemingly disparate characters. The anti-smoking establishment used to be worth supporting, but now it’s thrown itself into an idealogical fit and rage without the intelligence and intellect it used to have.

Come on people, get a grip.

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Posted in Activism, Film, General, United States on May 17th, 2007

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