Liberal Scum-bags
Posted on 12/26/2004 10:38:11 PM PST by kattracks
NOT content with trampling smokers' rights, the New York State Dept. of Health has launched an insidious campaign to erase all traces of tobacco from the movies.The department's tobacco control program was behind the formation of Reality Check, a well-funded group supposedly started by and for teens against smoking. One of R.C.'s missions is to eradicate smoking from the movies, and their methods have put some noses out of joint.
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Insiders say Reality Check plans an even more outrageous campaign, however. In addition to pressuring studios to keep smoking and cigarettes out of new movies — beginning with all films rated G, PG and PG-13 — the group actually wants the smoking scenes removed from classics like "Casablanca," "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
These people are very Orwellian.
What a bunch of Nazis. Someone should figure out how much this is costing the tax payers.
So the one kid throws his pack to the floor and said, "That's it. These things scare me. I quit.
The other kid replies, "Me too. Let's go smoke a joint."
Liberal Scum-bags
Hey Kattrack I find it very werid they didnt' do this 50 years when we have Old school actors like Bette Davis or John Wayne smoking on the Screen
I think it is responsibity of the parents teaching their kids not to smoke
How you like that New York state
That another cancer victim Bogie
And Bette Davis John Wayne and others
Are you also keeping count of the numerous Hollyweird denizens who have died from aids? Or drug use?
Throw in booze too..eg, Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward,many others. Living is dangerous to your health.
5 packs a day will do it every time. Course 25 beers a day will do it too. Or meth, or aids or....
No more car chases either. In fact, no more cars in movies. Let's be safe.
I guess that they would want to edit the movie where Nicole Kidman has the nekid bath with the ten year old boy she loves as the reincarnation of her dead husband. Wouldn't want to show her smoking after sex. < /sarcasm >
25 beers a day may NOT do it. I watched a documentary on Rockets Redglare and he was drinking a couple cases of beer at his worst point. He grew to be around 700 pounds and it took him hours to go down the stairs to get to the ambulance to go to the hospital.
I think that he eventually lost much of that weight (at least half) although he did die (it's not really disclosed just what he died of, I don't even think that the doctors were certain).
Not always easy to track AIDS deaths. Some Hollywood celebrities (even character actors) are listed as dying of "cancer" when it is widely known that they also had AIDS.
Remember the immune system is compromised.
It beats me how the anti-smoking lawsuit missed the Hollywood actors and screen writers....
If advertising caused people to smoke, what did Hollywood do?
Enjoy the irony! The movies provide one of the few remaining outlets for tobacco advertisement. Ever wondered why so many kids take up smoking in the face of all the negative publicity it receives? The entertainment industry, not Joe Camel,is responsible.
It's pretty common knowledge that companies will pay to have their products used as props. Forbidding smoking will cut a significant funding source to the Hollywood. I can't see how that could be all bad. Once the crusaders are finished their the can hit the music industry, you know all those tortured souls wreathed in cigarette smoke: the iconic depiction of the artist/poet/singer on music jackets. How do you depict defiant adolescence without the stub dangling from the lips or the fingers curling beneath the subject's nose. Bad news for Rap Music purveyors. "I'm bad but I'm healthy! " isn't going to appeal, I suspect.
"That another cancer victim Bogie"
Bogart didn't really smoke. He just pretended to on screen for the cachet of it.
He died of cancer, but it's hard to say tobacco caused it when he didn't smoke.
You know what smoker friend once told me yeah you hear more of Actors die of drug abuse than smoking
Least smoking would kill you SLOWLY
While drugs would kill you much faster
If it saves even one child, won't it be worth it to pay $10 to stare at a blank screen for two hours?
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