[theDentist]

What a crock of

[Buell_X1-1200]

Oh great. Now those old Johnny Carson DVD's for sale on TV will be labeled for "Adults Only".

What are these anti-smoking nazis going to think of next?

[HungarianGypsy]

Watching someone smoke on a screen isn't going to grate on me as much as someone swearing every other word. It's not as if the movies are going to require us to breathe in the cigarette smoke.

[autopsy]

What we're simply asking for is that smoking be treated by Hollywood as seriously as it treats offensive language."

Then the same standard should apply to homosexuality.

[nobody_knows]

Here's the smoking Nazi, and all his contact info. I told him to "Smoke my pole"!

http://cc.ucsf.edu/people/glantz_stanton.html

[swarthyguy]

The continuing nuttiness of America.

I get it; it's a coordinated strategy to get the world to laugh at us instead of hating us.

[Onelifetogive]

How about an R rating for Adam Sandler movies like "Waterboy" or "Little Nicky" that just plain suck!

[mhking]

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.

You're kidding.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[whereasandsoforth]

I've said it before and I'll say it now. They are going to go after the classic films that so a different and decent way of life. It ain't about smoking.

What is so sacred about the lungs to these people? They don't mind poisoning the brain.

[whereasandsoforth]

I've said it before and I'll say it now. They are going to go after the classic films that show a different and decent way of life. It ain't about smoking.

What is so sacred about the lungs to these people? They don't mind poisoning the brain.

[metesky]

Richard and Rhonda Goldman Fund

Unless otherwise noted, grantees are located in California.

Arts

San Francisco Opera
San Francisco
$125,000
To underwrite the production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore in the 2003 season.

Children and Youth

Community Network for Youth Development
San Francisco
125,000
To create and test a series of program assessment and improvement tools that will allow youth serving organizations to demonstrate the impact of their work.

Democracy and Civil Society

Voting Counts
San Francisco
30,000
To increase voter registration and turnout among 18 to 24 year olds.

United Religions Initiative
San Francisco
75,000
To promote interfaith cooperation and to end religiously motivated violence.

Environment

California Alliance for Transportation Choices
Sacramento
25,000
For a statewide coalition to promote sustainable transportation through state policy protection and reform.

Children’s Museum of Washington
Washington, D.C.
20,000
To help bring the Rolling Rainforest exhibit to the Bay Area.

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
Eugene, OR
25,000
For an on-going whistleblower advocacy program to protect national forests from illegal, environmentally destructive activities, and protect whistleblowers from retaliation.

Land Trust for Santa Clara County
Gilroy
25,000
To preserve open space and agricultural lands.

Health

University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
San Francisco
30,000
For the SmokeFreeMovies project.

Jewish Affairs

Hillel of Silicon Valley
San Jose
60,000
To create the Puentes Entre Judios y Latinos program to open communication and forge relationships between Jewish and Latino students at four college campuses in Silicon Valley.

Population

Advocates for Youth
Washington, D.C.
60,000
For a public policy campaign to protect comprehensive sexuality education for America’s youth from censorship at the federal, state and local levels.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
New York, NY
75,000
For the Reproductive Freedom Project to protect women’s reproductive rights at the federal, state and local levels.

Ipas
Chapel Hill, NC
50,000
To increase access to abortion in the United States by improving health facilities, providers and technology.

Social Services

La Cocina
San Francisco
100,000
For a small food business incubator for low-income food service entrepreneurs.

Women’s Economic Agenda Project
Oakland
50,000
For computer and telecommunications skills training for very low-income women.

Violence Prevention

Peaceful Streets
San Francisco
30,000
For a program that provides instruction to San Francisco and Oakland elementary students on the dangers of guns.



It looks like a mix of good intentions and leftist icons.

[Ragirl]

I guess if someone were to smoke in public, that would be considered obscene too? OH, RIGHT! It's illegal to light up in New York in public.....because it's obscene! I get it now! (sarcasm)

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I'm all for it--so long as all positive portrayals of faggotry are treated the same way.

[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."

[ProfoundMan]

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.

[GulliverSwift]

What a bunch of BS. They want to classify a 1970s cartoon as PG. "101 Dalmatians" is anti-cigarette one could very reasonably argue.

[kcpopps]

One for the puff list

[an amused spectator]

"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."

I'd be fascinated to hear "San Francisco" Glantz's views on gay marriage & the health effects of the gay lifestyle, wouldn't you? ;-)

[FrdmLvr]

I marvel at how the libs can always play both sides of any issue. Movies have no influence on impressionable young minds when it comes to sexual permissivness in movies, yet when it's their pet issue, then what's on that screen has a major impact.

[Just another Joe]

Puff

Did you guys see this one?