Smoking to affect movie ratings system

[youngins]

More legislators and regulators thinking they can raise our children better than we can!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/11/film.smoking.reut/index.html

[youngins]

I especially cring at the quote "Clearly, smoking is increasingly an unacceptable behavior in our society,"

Isn't smoking a choice? I don't smoke, but still - I believe it goes along with all the other everyday decisions we make about our lives.

Next, somebody is going to suggest smoking contributes to global warming.

[MountainDon]

Oh criminy!!  
Whereas I don't smoke and I don't like cigarette smoke near me, I don't think we need this. More and more people don't smoke in this country. So let's just reduce the smoking characters in films to reflect the general population use, but let's do it with common sense, not regulations.

There's no telling where it will stop, what other behavior the movie police will find undesirable.

I am a reformed pipe smoker of 22 years. I have to admit I found my health to improve... almost no sinus or other respiratory infections since I stooped.

[youngins]

Before you know it - there will be a separate rating for those movies with weapons in it, and so on.

[fourx]

I don't know about you folk, but here there is  a vast army of prissy Government rule-enforcing seatwarmers and a list of film classifications a mile long, such as "" occasional violent themes"" and ""parental guidance reccomended""-
I'll post the list if you want to get depressed.
Regulation is a growth industry here in the Leningrad of the South..want to ride a bicycle or a motor bike without a helmet? Smoke inside a public building? Drive without a seatbelt? Fit a toilet that isn't duel-flush? Get ready for a big fine. That Crocidile Dundee stuff is all a myth, like Fosters beer consumption is.

[glenn kangiser]

We have an overabundance of jack-booted thugs also.

My personal favorite is the porta-potties.

Warning - It is a federal offense to dump materials deemed hazardous into this toilet.  You could be subject to a fine of $2000  per day and time in prison  for for dumping hazardous materials in this facility.

DO YOU THINK I'M GONNA TELL ANYBODY I JUST DUMPED A GIANT LOAD IN THERE???

Not on you life --

Uhhhhh --- I was gonna use it but it was just air ---that's it --- just fresh air.  Nope - wasn't me --- someone else did that.

[fourx]

!!!

[fishing_guy]

My lovely state of Minnesota is in the process of passing a law to outlaw indoor smoking.  They have actually written it into the law "To PERMIT smoking in private homes".

That is right, now we need a law to allow someone to do something IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME.

If I didn't love fishing so much, I'ld high tail it out of this land of 10,000 lakes.