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Smoking gun: French film can't kick nicotine habit

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It may be difficult to distinguish if this is actually just a reflection of the French society in the films or some effort made on purpose to promote smoking, but at the end it is not important, it has been demonstrated that smoking in films make it seem less dangerous and cooler, so something has to be done to reduce it.

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It may be difficult to distinguish if this is actually just a reflection of the French society in the films or some effort made on purpose to promote smoking, but at the end it is not important, it has been demonstrated that smoking in films make it seem less dangerous and cooler, so something has to be done to reduce it.

I personally think it should just be banned. I think phasing it out by making it illegal for anyone born after, say, 2002, to buy cigarettes.

Is that date arbitrary? Yeah.

Would this destroy the tobacco industry? Fingers crossed.

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When I was 11 years old, I used the money from my first paper route payday to go and see my first ever movie in a cinema. It was a James Bond movie (a rerun), in which Sean Connery's smoking scenes were a central part. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. So, I used my second paper route payday to buy my first pack of cigarettes' (there was an age limit to buy, but the small corner shop owner didn't care, the same way he didn't care about selling me fireworks way underage). I finally quit smoking in my 20s.

Of course, if I was 11 years old now, I would have the internet, so a smoking James Bond would probably be the least of my bad influences

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just look at the credits at the end of the film and you'll see the name of the tobacco company. Wherever you see smoking in films you'll see the name of the tobacco company 'contributing ' to the making of the film

I do not think so. It is prohibited in France since 1991 to promote directly or indirectly tobacco and advertise it. If it is the case, it is an old movie.

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Why tobacco is cool and gives the movie a sense of classiness

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And where’s the problem? It’s a legal drug, in very contrast to your estimated preferences of cannabis and marijuana. Those to promote you construct such anti-smoking propaganda, am I right? Yes, of course I am.

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