Family & Relationships12 mins ago
Smoking in Movies.
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First of all I suppose I am an anti-smoker. At the end of the day it stinks and will give you a cancerous lung or two.
However, is this kill-joy government going too far in classing all movies, even old black and white ones, as Cert 18 if they depict any forms of smoking?
ALL Sherlock Holmes, anything with Churchill portrayed, ALL Humphrey Bogart, and even 101 Dalmations (Cruella Deville) and Pinnochio will be re-classed.
Are we going over the top or what????
However, is this kill-joy government going too far in classing all movies, even old black and white ones, as Cert 18 if they depict any forms of smoking?
ALL Sherlock Holmes, anything with Churchill portrayed, ALL Humphrey Bogart, and even 101 Dalmations (Cruella Deville) and Pinnochio will be re-classed.
Are we going over the top or what????
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No I have never felt the need to sink my teeth into the necks of passers by by .You never know where they have been :)
However, I have never felt the need to smoke just because someone in a film or on stage does so .
But ..if these were my councillors in my ward I would be asking them why they feel the need to spend my council tax waffling about the biggest load of bulls droppings I have ever heard .
However, I have never felt the need to smoke just because someone in a film or on stage does so .
But ..if these were my councillors in my ward I would be asking them why they feel the need to spend my council tax waffling about the biggest load of bulls droppings I have ever heard .
The push for this comes from anti smoking groups. They are asking Councils to put higher age certificates on films that show smoking.
Presumably the anti smoking group wish to have an impact, to put pressure on agencies/departments/public to refrain or stop smoking.
So why are people complaining, is there no freedom of speech in this country, are grass root groups to be banned, Should people who perceive a threat be silenced?
Personally as an ex smoker I think if anything can be done/any action to be taken that doesn't cause harm to others, helps stop smokers must be a good thing.
Would all you moany people complain if people wanted to prevent other behaviours that caused huge amount of suffering and death.
Should our right to watch films with smoking in it be paramount, and to hell with the protection of potentially vulnerable young people
The glamourisation of smoking did encourage people to smoke and it cost them their lives.
Presumably the anti smoking group wish to have an impact, to put pressure on agencies/departments/public to refrain or stop smoking.
So why are people complaining, is there no freedom of speech in this country, are grass root groups to be banned, Should people who perceive a threat be silenced?
Personally as an ex smoker I think if anything can be done/any action to be taken that doesn't cause harm to others, helps stop smokers must be a good thing.
Would all you moany people complain if people wanted to prevent other behaviours that caused huge amount of suffering and death.
Should our right to watch films with smoking in it be paramount, and to hell with the protection of potentially vulnerable young people
The glamourisation of smoking did encourage people to smoke and it cost them their lives.
......"So why are people complaining, is there no freedom of speech in this country, are grass root groups to be banned, Should people who perceive a threat be silenced?....."
Yes Ruby, I seem to recall you support Abu Hamza's right to preach/speech as well.
Yet you are the first to come down on anybody here who disagrees with your marxist ******** and blatent anti-Britishness.
What a strange person you are. Keep reading your little red book and licking the stinking arses of peadophiles, terrorists and all the scum you stick up for.
Yes Ruby, I seem to recall you support Abu Hamza's right to preach/speech as well.
Yet you are the first to come down on anybody here who disagrees with your marxist ******** and blatent anti-Britishness.
What a strange person you are. Keep reading your little red book and licking the stinking arses of peadophiles, terrorists and all the scum you stick up for.
Tobacco has been around since the 1500's in this country .
It's nothing new .How do you think men coped going over the top in the Great War. They had a fag and if they had any sense a good tot of something beforehand .
I very much doubt if some of those poor devils had ever seen a film let alone one that that encouraged them to smoke .
Can you imagine Maigret sans pipe ? I can't.
For goodness sake these are films . Made years ago.Churchill with his ever present cigar only available to watch if you are 18 and over .Ridiculous .
It's nothing new .How do you think men coped going over the top in the Great War. They had a fag and if they had any sense a good tot of something beforehand .
I very much doubt if some of those poor devils had ever seen a film let alone one that that encouraged them to smoke .
Can you imagine Maigret sans pipe ? I can't.
For goodness sake these are films . Made years ago.Churchill with his ever present cigar only available to watch if you are 18 and over .Ridiculous .
Swearing should also be banned in movies!
An English gentleman can use his vocabulary to great effect without the need for the profane or the vernacular!
"I say, you Cad, how dare you point that gun at me! I've a good mind to report you to the authorities, and I will, I really will if you persist in this unruly beaviour!"
"Oh gosh! Here, take my gun, I'm so truly ashamed of myself, I just don't know what came over me!"
"Thank you! Now run along like a really nice chap!"
An English gentleman can use his vocabulary to great effect without the need for the profane or the vernacular!
"I say, you Cad, how dare you point that gun at me! I've a good mind to report you to the authorities, and I will, I really will if you persist in this unruly beaviour!"
"Oh gosh! Here, take my gun, I'm so truly ashamed of myself, I just don't know what came over me!"
"Thank you! Now run along like a really nice chap!"
Yes, old films did glamourise smoking - but we are educated now, and we know the dangers. Hence the success of the recent anti-smoking campaign - and doubtless people will pass that knowledge on to their children. Basically, this initiative is complete and utter poppycock. You talk about freedom of speech, but that only seems to work one way. If only basic common sense was considered as relevant as the outlandish initiatives suggested by those intent on control, this country might not be ruled by petty bureaucrats intent on imposing their wonky, misguided, will on others - and others who are perfectly capable of making their own decisions. Disney a danger? Come on - be serious!! I'll tell you, Ruby, I'm a parent, and Disney and the old movies didn't encourage mine to smoke, any more than they encouraged them to do a James Cagney and opt for the gangster lifestyle, or to flit around Fred Astaire style. Do get a grip on reality, for heavens sake.
Sad ending though. She went off with her husband, who she didn't love - leaving Rick - who she did love - to continue without her. Oh, the deluge of tears that movie produces!! I do hope no one watching it ever suffers psychological trauma. Maybe it should be banned, just in case. What do you think? ;o)
Wonderful film naomi24.One of my favourites . I have watched it countless times .You would think by now that I would be a forty a day person from watching it .
I must remember not to watch my other old favourite ,Rebecca ,just in case I take it into my head to become an arsonist or drown my other half .
As for Carry on Camping. Heavens above. It could encourage me to become a nudist :))
I must remember not to watch my other old favourite ,Rebecca ,just in case I take it into my head to become an arsonist or drown my other half .
As for Carry on Camping. Heavens above. It could encourage me to become a nudist :))
I do think that films are a bad influence and should be re-written.
When Arnie says, "I'll be back!" that should be re-written as, "I shall return when it is convenient!"
When Rab Butler says, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
It should read, "To be perfectly honest, my dear, I have found that recently, and I presume for the forseeable future, that my interest in our relationship, and by implication, your welfare, is no longer as important to me as it once was.
However, I shall leave you the number of a fairly reputable therapist."
When Arnie says, "I'll be back!" that should be re-written as, "I shall return when it is convenient!"
When Rab Butler says, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
It should read, "To be perfectly honest, my dear, I have found that recently, and I presume for the forseeable future, that my interest in our relationship, and by implication, your welfare, is no longer as important to me as it once was.
However, I shall leave you the number of a fairly reputable therapist."
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