Tuesday, June 2, 2009

SHOULD SMOKING IN MOVIES WARRANT AN 'R' RATING?


The American Medical Association Alliance certainly thinks so.

CNN -- Smoking in youth-rated movies has not declined despite a pledge two years ago by Hollywood studios to encourage producers to show less "gratuitous smoking," according to an anti-smoking group.

The American Medical Association Alliance has been trying to get movie studios to make smoking-free films.

The American Medical Association Alliance, pointing to research that big-screen smoking leads teens to pick up the tobacco habit, called for an R rating for any movie with smoking scenes.

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What do you think?

1 comment:

andy said...

i think people need to learn how to be held accountable for there own actions.