Save Me From The Movies
The MPAA, those friendly folks who figure out the ratings for our motion picture industry, have decided that smoking is hazardous to our viewing health. You can just guess what I think of that, but to add to the idiocy, this Variety article ends on this note:
The MPAA also announced that, along with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, it has joined Hollywood Unfiltered, a voluntary, entertainment industry-led initiative to educate and raise awareness within the biz of the public health consequences of depicting smoking in movies and television.
Aside from the fact that the very name "Hollywood Unfiltered" conjures up images of people 'smoking' non-filtered cigarettes, anybody reading this that needs their awareness raised about the health consequences of smoking are just stupid people. And anyone that says people in "the biz" need to have their consciousness raised, about smoking anyway, is blowing smoke up your ass.
I can just imagine the internet sites springing up all over the place to fill the need as smoking disappears from the silver screen to earn that coveted PG rating. Oh, wait.
