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Should Movies Showing People Smoking Be Rated-R? Jul 20, 2017 16:09:31 GMT -5

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In 2016, a federal court tossed out a proposed federal class action lawsuit filed against the MPAA that claimed "exposure to tobacco imagery in youth rated films has caused, and will continue to cause, hundreds of thousands of children under the age of 17 in the United States to become addicted to tobacco every year."

Cliffnotes with which I agree:

"Why is it that filmmakers are aware that showing smoking can have a negative influence on kids but showing foul language or showing all kinds of sexual content or showing horrific violence, apparently, that doesn't have any influence on children at all?" Gildemeister asked. "They let a lot of the other things slide, things that I think most parents are more serious and more egregious than smoking."

www.christianpost.com/news/should-movies-showing-people-smoking-be-rated-r-mpaa-cdc-192566/

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Should Movies Showing People Smoking Be Rated-R? Jul 20, 2017 16:21:48 GMT -5 trailboss likes this

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Protectionist people are going to "save" us from ourselves, but don't have a problem at all of showing people getting shot, brains splattered everywhere on nighttime tv, or the video games they let their kids play nonstop.

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