Smoking in movies may turn teens to cigarettes: study

This study has been conducted countless times before. This headline might as well be from 1952 as it was well known back then how effective and powerful the TV was.

Never is right, of course. Quite redundant. NO ONE was as cool with a ciggie as Humphrey Bogart, yet his Drop Dead Gorgeous wife, Lauren Bacall, said he literally, "stunk of decay" in his final days as cancer ravaged his body. What a contrast, and what a lose. She never recovered from the loss of her true love. The world lost a great actor. Alas. The ending due to the cancer caused by cigs is...really...how could it be worth it?

'''...what a loss...""

The Marlboro Man also died of lung cancer. When I was a tourist in Thailand in 2001, I noticed that the sight of tobacco is blurred from the television screen, as is the sight of someone putting a cigarette or a cigar to his mouth. One news item I saw was of the production of cigarettes in a factory. It showed the mechanisms and the rolling paper surrounding the cigarettes, but it blurred out the sight of the tobacco at the tips of the cigarettes.

True or not, I doubt that I would ever start smoking as it makes me feel ill to even see someone smoking. I dunno, I guess watching my mom die a slow and horrible death at a relatively young age because of cancer might have something to do with it. However, I would support raising a movie's rating if they had smoking in it even if it's only somewhat possible that it increases people's desires.

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maybe they will be smoking BUT from what i've seen,The Reefer Madness Grows& Grows! some kids think reefers are safer but in fact are more dangerous than ciggies.What's shown in movies shouldn't be censored,kids do what They Want,anyway!

I worry about teen turning into vampires as these days it's more frequent than ciggies in teen cult movies... Oh, wait, most parents already their teen kids are like leeches.

Pff too quick... parents already complain...

I think EVERYONE has known this fact for the last 40 years! Why is there a new study now? Does it show anything new, or is it just a wake up call to try and pressure the movie industry?

Eating in movies leads to teen obesity and drinking in movies is a direct path to alcoholism, ban all movies RIGHT NOW.

Honestly though, people should chill and mind their own business already, this protect the children stupidity will drive the world to hell. Our generation was totally fine with some belt punisment, underage smoking , drinking, coming back from school alone and the rest of things . Stop overprotecting everything , learning from mistakes is an integral part of a learning process.

I watched a bloke insert a toy car into his fundament in "Jackass: The Movie". Can't say I rushed out and did the same.

We used to see smoking in scenes like when the soldier was shot, his pal would give him his last smoke. Tough guys had that image of lighting up and looking tough. I think that some non smoking actors don't inhale but just blow out the smoke. Whatever the situation is now, I think smoking on screen has dropped conciderably. Now someone mentioned eating. What about those tv programs here that are just eat, eat and eat more? No wonder the Japanese are getting chubbier. Smoking seems to be on the decline somewhat. Good news.

Can't say I rushed out and did the same.

Did not see the movie you are talking about. However, I would imagine smoking on screen probably looks a lot cooler than the action you described.

We used to see smoking in scenes like when the soldier was shot, his pal would give him his last smoke.

Yeah, I never got that. You are dying your last breaths and you would want to use those breaths to make it harder to breathe? Talk about irony in the movies, huh?

Smoking in films these days usually seems gratuitous and I often wonder if the film companies have been paid to include it. They don't show people going to the toilet, so why do they need to show them smoking?

Smoking in movies may turn teens to cigarettes: study

Noooo duhh! Really?

Smoking is cool, that's why people try it out. Many don't like it and stop. Some do and carry on. Leave them alone.

Wakanai...we have to pay their end of life medical bills with our national health insurance, so sorry, it is impossible to, "Leave them alone". They won't leave my NHI costs alone, will they?????????

Are guys who put out reports like this people with a lot of time on their hands?

It certainly looks like it.

Scrote brings up an excellent point.

"They don't show people going to the toilet"

They don't, in movies, do they?

But you would think that a person who's spent most of the day running at full speed, jumping from building to building, climbing up walls, narrowly avoiding death from Ospreys, being shot at, strangling a couple of crocodiles and all, might need to take care of a couple of bodily functions, wouldn't you?

British TV has reduced the amount of smoking in them for years, especially in programmes children and teenagers may watch. If you compare a 1980s series with a modern one you would see very, very few characters with a fag, cigar or pipe stuck in their mouth.

Ranger. Your freedom to not pay for something does not outweigh other peoples freedom to live the way they choose. I hate that line of thinking and it will lead to less freedom for everybody. Smokers already pay a lot of taxes on cigs which go to health care cost.

I wonder if anyone has researched the effect of films in which smokers are depicted as idiots. Would kids want to take up smoking after watching John Candy set fire to the car in "Trains, Planes or Automobiles" or the old guy causing a Christmas tree fire and sewer gas explosion with his cigars in "Christmas Vacation"? And then there was the chain-smoking old lady in "Eight-Legged Freaks" who stank so badly that the ferocious giant spiders refused to eat her.

Anyway, I'm all for movies that depict smoking as the stupid, inconsiderate, uncool habit that it is. I hope Jim Carey will make one called "Dumb, Dumber and Smoker."