William Triplett of Variety:
Smoking will now affect movie ratings.
Responding to years of criticism from child advocacy groups and health organization, the Motion Picture Assn. of America announced Thursday it is expanding its current consideration of teen smoking to all smoking when evaluating and assigning a movie rating.
"In the past, illegal teen smoking has been a factor in the rating of films, alongside other parental concerns such as sex, violence and adult language," MPAA said in a statement. "Now, all smoking will be considered and depictions that glamorize smoking or movies that feature pervasive smoking outside of an historic or other mitigating context may receive a higher rating."
While I'm not a smoker, hate that it's so addictive, and would never endorse any young person start the nasty puffing habit--I have to say, this news is just picking at nits. Does this mean that if Casablanca (1942) been released today, as is, (without any language or sexual content concerns) would be rated PG-13 or R? Most likely, films released with smokers in them already have Language, Violence, or Sexual situations in them anyway--supposedly keeping kids away...The idea sounds good in theory, but as I say, this is just pointing out the ridiculous--Jeebus!
On a totally unrelated matter: One of my favorite new TV shows of this season is coming back for another year...Whoo-hoo and Yippee!!
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