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Smokers in Movies
12/27/2007 9:38:00 AM at4101
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I have noticed after watching that movie "Thank You For Smoking", that they were right about one thing: Seeing people smoking in movies sends subliminal messages to kids that smoking is cool. I heard there was a lot of discussions going on about banning smoking on television shows. Has anyone heard if this is true ?
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12/30/2007 11:06:48 AM at4101
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I think people smoking in movies hasn't changed a bit. It seems that every movie that I see it has at least one person smoking. I think it would a good idea though to cut all that smoking crap out of movies as much as possible I guess for obvious reasons such as doing biographies though there is no way around it.
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12/30/2007 11:17:07 AM megan22
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I know that the past several years or so the US Centers for Disease Control blamed teenage smoking on movies, but because of some kind of infringment act it was never banned. The cigarette companies don't care. They are happy to be making all that extra money even at the cost of teens and kids.
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9/26/2008 2:31:48 PM pinkcat
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Smoking doesn't make a person seem so much cooler so I really dont get why they do it in movies, its dumb. It sends out the wrong message to people and especially kids! they idol these stars, why have them use a cigg because a producer wanted the actor to? They could just cut that out and its not going to make that big of a difference.
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9/29/2008 11:19:06 AM natallya
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Didn't they start putting warning clips before videos that include smoking now or something like that? I think there might be a similar post to this in the smoking section that I read. I'm not really sure though if that clip will make people look at smoking in the movies a different way or stop the subliminal messaging.
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10/2/2008 2:39:22 PM truesailor
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natallya said: Didn't they start putting warning clips before videos that include smoking now or something like that? I think there might be a similar post to this in the smoking section that I read. I'm not really sure though if that clip will make people look at smoking in the movies a different way or stop the subliminal messaging.
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Having smoking in a movie iesn't really a subliminal message though. Those are illegal. Did they start putting warning clips before videos that include smoking? The last movie I saw that had a smoker in it was My Bestfriends Girl, they didn't put up anything though. I dont think if they did either that it would matter much. Its just the image of the "cool" celebrity smoking that could bring out the wrong idea to kids and teenagers.

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