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R-Rating Sought in Some Smoking Films
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| March 9, 2004
| ANTHONY BREZNICAN
Posted on 03/09/2004 2:21:37 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less
LOS ANGELES - If Nicolas Cage (news) lights a cigarette in a movie, Hollywood's ratings board should respond as if he used a profanity, according to authors of a new study that criticizes glamorous images of smoking in movies rated for children under 17.
Nearly 80 percent of movies rated PG-13 feature some form of tobacco use, while 50 percent of G and PG rated films depict smoking, said Stanton Glantz, co-author of the study, which examined 775 U.S. movies over the past five years.
"No one is saying there should never be any smoking in the movies," Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said Tuesday at a press conference at Hollywood High School. "What we're simply asking for is that smoking be treated by Hollywood as seriously as it treats offensive language."
He'd like to see more PG-13 movies that feature smoking like "Matchstick Men," "Seabiscuit" and the Oscar-winning "Chicago" get slapped with an R rating.
Since R-rated films typically earn less money because they are not open to most teenagers, Glantz said he hoped such a policy would discourage filmmakers from depicting unnecessary smoking, such as the nicotine-addicted worm aliens in "Men in Black."
The proposal includes an exception for historical figures who actually smoked as part of their public life, Glantz added. "For example, if they wanted to make a movie about Winston Churchill, they could show him with a cigar without triggering an R-rating, but the number of movies where that actually happens is very small."
The study was funded by the charitable foundation The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the National Cancer Institute (news - web sites).
Glantz singled out The Walt Disney Co. for smoking in the PG-rated "Holes" and G-rated "102 Dalmatians," Time Warner for its PG "Secondhand Lions" and "What a Girl Wants" and Sony Pictures Entertainment for its PG "Master of Disguise."
The Motion Picture Association of America, which rates films, did not immediately return calls for comment on the study or the ratings proposal.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pufflist; smoking; smokingbans
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To: theDentist
"What a crock of"
Amen to that-it's a load of kerry...
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posted on
03/09/2004 2:47:55 PM PST
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: swarthyguy
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Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
Finances for fiscal year ending 12/31/2001
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Total Assets |
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$395,322,718.00 |
Grants Awarded |
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$29,949,270.00 |
Original Funding Source The Goldman Fund was endowed by Richard Goldman and his wife, the late Rhoda Haas Goldman. Rhoda was the daughter of Walter Haas and great-grandneice of Levi Strauss, who founded the clothing company that bears his name. Strauss was childless and left his company to four nephews, one of whom was Sigmund Stern, Rhoda's maternal grandfather.
Selected Grants * |
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Tides Foundation & Tides Center |
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The Foundation Center |
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For the Center for Ethics and Toxic Substances -- To raise awareness of risks posed by biotechnology |
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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$60,000.00 in 2001 |
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Foundation Annual Report |
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Ending Industrial Aquaculture campaign |
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Union of Concerned Scientists |
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$100,000.00 in 2001 |
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Foundation Annual Report |
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Animal Antibiotics program |
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Time Frame |
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Tides Foundation & Tides Center |
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1991 - 2001 |
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Natural Resources Defense Council |
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$1,205,000.00 |
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1993 - 2001 |
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Environmental Media Services |
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$775,000.00 |
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2000 - 2001 |
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Union of Concerned Scientists |
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$500,000.00 |
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1994 - 2001 |
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Environmental Working Group |
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$220,000.00 |
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1990 - 2001 |
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SeaWeb |
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$105,000.00 |
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1999 - 1999 |
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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$65,000.00 |
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2000 - 2001 |
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Waterkeeper Alliance |
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$60,000.00 |
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2000 - 2001 |
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Center for Media & Democracy |
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Michael C. Gelman |
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President, Gelman Rosenberg & Freedman; Campaign Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington; Member, University of Maryland Board of Regents |
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Susan R. Gelman |
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Former member, the President's Advisory Council on the Arts; Trustee, WETA; daughter of Richard & Rhoda Goldman |
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Douglas E. Goldman |
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Retired emerg. physician; chair, Certain Software; founder, the Goldman Jewish Genealogy Ctr.; chair, Stern Grove Festival Assn.; son of Levi Strauss heirs Richard & Rhoda Goldman; trustee, the Goldman Environ. Fdn.; pres., the Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund |
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John D. Goldman |
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CEO, Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services; President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco; President, San Francisco Symphony; son of Richard & Rhoda Goldman; trustee, Swarthmore College |
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Lisa M. Goldman |
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Wife of Douglas E. Goldman |
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Marcia L. Goldman |
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Co-Chairman, Theaterworks; wife of John D. Goldman |
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Richard N. Goldman |
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Chairman, Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services; widower of Rhoda Haas Goldman, the great-grandniece of denim blue jeans innovator Levi Strauss |
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posted on
03/09/2004 2:48:27 PM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: swarthyguy; onmyfeet
Stay out of Amsterdam!
Anti-smoking law snares French drug smuggler
Source: Expatica.com (nl), 2004-01-21
Intro:
AMSTERDAM A man who carelessly drew police attention to himself by lighting a cigarette in a no-smoking zone in Rotterdam's central train station on Wednesday has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 2.3 kilos of heroin to France.
The 26-year-old man from the French city Lille was planning to take the international train to Paris and but for his cigarette "addiction" he would probably have escaped detection.
He was in the waiting room on a platform when he saw two police officers nearby. To calm his nerves, he lit up a cigarette, police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek told Dutch news agency Novum Nieuws.
Unfortunately for him, new regulations which came into force in the Netherlands on 1 January prohibit smoking in most areas of train stations.
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posted on
03/09/2004 2:49:33 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: In_25_words_or_less
The PC police have already written their disapproval into the script; any movie made in the past ten years or so in which you see someone smoking early on is a sure tipoff that he is one of the "badguys."
To: swarthyguy
French strike over cigarette prices
Angry protesters have taken to the streets
France's 34,000 tobacconists on Monday staged their first ever national strike in protest against a sharp rise in cigarette prices.
The strike coincided with a 20% increase in the price of a pack of cigarettes, the second of three planned price rises.
"Three separate price increases will push the cost of smoking up by half in the space of a year," said BBC News correspondent in Paris, Quentin Somerville.
France has long had some of the cheapest cigarettes in Europe but is now trying to persuade people to quit the habit.
However, critics say the increases are being used to help bail out France's troubled state finances.
Cross-border buying
Nine out of 10 tobacconists were closed for the day, and 60 demonstrations were planned across the country.
Average price, pack of 20 (euros)
Norway 7.3
UK 6.7
France 5.0
Germany 3.4
Netherlands 2.9
Italy 2.5
Spain 1.9
US 3.3
Japan 2.2
South Africa 1.3
Cigarette prices: Your comments
French tobacconists have a monopoly on cigarette sales and take a percentage of every packet sold.
The price rises will force tobacconists out of business, and the number of bankruptcies has already gone up by 57% in a year, according to the Confederation of Licensed Tobacco Sellers.
"The government says loud and clear that it wants the day to come when there is not a single smoker left in France," said Rene Le Pape, president of the confederation.
"What I want is to make sure that our network of 34,000 traders doesn't disappear as well."
The government has offered an aid package worth around 120m euros to help the worst-affected tobacconists, but the shopkeepers say it is not enough.
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posted on
03/09/2004 2:56:52 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: autopsy
reply to: "smoking be treated by Hollywood as seriously as it treats offensive language,,," response: "Then the same sandard should apply to homosexuality."
I thought any sexual activity portrayed on the screen gave a film an R or X rating,,, or did I miss something?
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posted on
03/09/2004 2:58:09 PM PST
by
RonHolzwarth
(Jewish viewpoint here!)
To: Old Professer
The PC police have already written their disapproval into the script; any movie made in the past ten years or so in which you see someone smoking early on is a sure tipoff that he is one of the "badguys."Pearl Harbor was notoriously scrubbed clean of cigarettes -- though in 1941 nearly everyone smoked.
To: Seth1
Why is it a crock? Why is it a crock? Oh my.
Let me through you a curve ball. What if I say that I want every motion picture that depicts a black person to be rated R?
The reasoning? Simple. What percentage of the American populace is black? At best 13%?
What percentage of people smoke? Is it more or less than 13%?
(It's more, by the way)
Chew on that for a while.
Life is a terminal disease, depending upon how you look at it. I can guarantee you that everyone you see that is living will definitely die. They will suffer a lot more during their life if they hear any democratic propaganda. Liberals are Pro-Slavery and Anti-Freedom.
You know what I would do if I were in charge? I'd make any liberal ideology rated X and let people decide for themselves if they wanted to smoke. Liberals are deadlier than second hand smoke.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:04:22 PM PST
by
Prodigal Son
(Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
To: In_25_words_or_less
This is actually a Kerry jobs program. Remember when they erased the guns shown in a scene of "ET"? Well imagine the work created for all the folks who will expunge the offensive smoking behavior in every film ever made. What a visionary...
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:04:30 PM PST
by
ProfoundMan
(The owl flies far for a candy bar.)
To: swarthyguy
LOL. But, but... Banning smoking could only happen in a non-free country...
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:05:51 PM PST
by
Prodigal Son
(Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
To: In_25_words_or_less
What a bunch of BS. They want to classify a 1970s cartoon as PG. "101 Dalmatians" is anti-cigarette one could very reasonably argue.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:06:47 PM PST
by
GulliverSwift
(Keep the <a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/">gigolo</a> out of the White House!)
To: swarthyguy
Wait til they start digitising Bogie's butts into toothpicks. Oh, given the way the gays have taken over American politics, what do you think Bogies butts will be digitized into in the future?
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:06:57 PM PST
by
Prodigal Son
(Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
To: Prodigal Son
Put that death stick out!
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:11:38 PM PST
by
GulliverSwift
(Keep the <a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/">gigolo</a> out of the White House!)
You're harming our nation's health!
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:12:24 PM PST
by
GulliverSwift
(Keep the <a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/">gigolo</a> out of the White House!)
To: cinFLA
Having fun? Or is there a point apart from your glee.
Make smokes illegal, I'd rather pay sellers than the state.
Dare ya! Funny how the states are now dependent upon revenue from the most ostracised element of society.
I hope they go after eating habits soon. Meat, beef in particular would be rather nice.
I'm sending money to PETA and some of the most liberal groups I can find.
But you're prolly vegetarian, too.
Let's see, there's virtually nothing that can't be regulated, controlled or taxed under the rubric of health.
You can't even see the endresult of all these statist policies, disagreeable as some of their target behaviors are to you; seems something as American and indicative of a free society as freedom of association which you have effectively gone after in your jihad against bars and nightclubs. Which until recently, were the last places one could freely smoke. So, it wasn't about health per se, but rather a vindictive, vicious exercise in domination, control and intrusion into an individual's behavior, just so it could be done. My feeling is that the virulence of the American Taliban's behavior and their motivation was to eventually limit liquor sales in bars and outlets. Asking for Prohibition would be too much, but smoking would be a safe way to eventually reach that reality, perhaps restricting alcohol consumption to private domiciles.
America's future may not be as Orwell said, a boot in humanity's face, rather a sensible granny shoe.
To: Seth1
Free Republic is a great place.
Currently on the forum:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1094157/posts Obesity to overtake smoking as the number one threat to US health: study
In other words, eating is deadlier than smoking.
So, we should rate all movies depicting actors eating should be rated R.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:29:58 PM PST
by
Prodigal Son
(Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
To: Just another Joe
One for the puff list
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:30:23 PM PST
by
kcpopps
To: Prodigal Son
Nope. Halve the portions in restaurants but keep the price. No doggy bags! The owners will like the profit increase.
Tax rates predicated on body weight/height index or some infernally complex and arcane BMI ratio.
Smokers who quit, got fat, are bummed.
To: mhking; veronica
Agreed.
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:07:50 PM PST
by
hchutch
(Why did the Nazgul bother running from Arwen's flash flood? They only managed to die tired.)
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