News | 2010
2010
Up in smoke: Give movies with tobacco an automatic 'R'
We just make it tougher for new films with cigarette use to influence kids.
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James Cameron responds to critics of smoking in 'Avatar'
Smoking is a filthy habit which I don’t support, and neither, I believe, does 'Avatar.'
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'Avatar' joins holiday movies that fail an antismoking test
Others include 'Sherlock Holmes,' 'The Blind Side,' 'Nine,' and 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox.'
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We want movies to acknowledge what is real, but also to improve on reality.
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Altria: How does smoking in movies affect the young?
Since 1990, Philip Morris USA’s policy has been to refrain from product placement in movies.
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More money, more problems: 'Avatar' success fuels critics
| The Economic Times (India) (14 Jan 2010)
The character played by Sigourney Weaver … is still puffing away on her cigarettes some 150 years in the future.
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Smoke's on the silver screen
Stan Glantz and Katherine Monk debate onscreen smoking.
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The libertarian smokescreen
You stigmatize tobacco because it kills hundreds of thousands of people a year — or at least you give it...an 'R.'
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Smoke Screens
A modest proposal: the MPAA ratings system should be abolished.
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Avatars don't smoke
It’s hard to condemn the strategy of using information, not censorship, to confront a perceived public-health threat.
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