Cigarettes in movies seen to cause teen smoking

I have been appalled at the new movies that show folks smoking! Having a sister with lung cancer is a first hand look at why no one should ever smoke.

There are studies that indicate some people are "hooked" the first time they smoke. As an addiction counselor I have watched more folks die of lung cancer under the age 50. Smoking cigarettes, smoking crack, smoking methamphetamine, smoking cannabis......all will destroy your lungs and eventually your life.

I tried 6 times to quit smoking. Even after I was diagnosed with lung cancer I smoked for another few months. Crazy? I was addicted and still fight urges today. I may die 15 years earlier than I should have.

Hollywood and filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves for putting smoking back in the picture.

Give the human race a little credit people don't have anything to do except portray movie stars smokers enjoy smoking and non smokers and x smokers get your own life stop trying to save mine.

Didn't we already know this? I feel like they told us this when I was in high school.

As a smoker since 15. I blame no one but myself. Period.

Stop whining and blaming hollywood and media. It's your own fault for smoking. I smoke and i didn't blame Hunter S. Thompson for me starting. American people sicken me with the way we blame others for our own issues. It's never OUR fault. It's television or movies or the news or magazines or your neighbor or the smoker at the coffee shop, etc etc etc..... Geez!
I HAVE A MIND AND CAN MAKE DECISIONS ON MY OWN. Stop trying to belittle my every action.

Imagine if they applied that kind of advertising budget to marijuana. Talk about America "going green"...

I don't disagree with the findings that kids do what they see. They're kids. That's what they do.

However, I'll stop short of bashing "Hollywood" for putting cigarettes in film since I don't think they've been written into scripts as a not-so-subtle form of product placement. Rather, portraying someone smoking is to give the viewer information about a character who probably "lives" in a society that hates smoking (and smokers) as much as ours.

But I'm not saying you shouldn't bash away if you feel like it. Go ahead. Just don't expect everyone to jump on the train to Censorship Town...no matter how well intentioned your reasons might be.

That is like saying that Hollywood is the reason kids are acting more and more like douchebags... OH WAIT, kids are acting like douchebags and Hollywood is full of douchebags, so yeah they (Hollywood) may have an effect on our impressionable idiotic youth.

Are you kidding me, if you smoke you have noone else to blame but yourself, and if your kids smoke then maybe it is time you take a look at your parenting!

This whole blame someone or something else for what people are doing is sooo full of shit. This is like that whole sue Wendys and MacDonalds cause your a fat ass and won't stop eating out. As someone who has smoked for over 10 years nothing contributed to me starting except for the fact that I was a dumbass teenager. Not because some stupid actor or actress did it in a film. People in the country need to stop blaming there addictions and bad habits on everything but themselves.

pretty sure they already covered this story in Thank You For Smoking. Although I'm not sure how direct the influence is, they certainly have more appeal on screen than in reality. There is something cinematically beautiful about smoke wafting on film.

Just like sex, once a young person sees it on TV, they wanna try it out..its only human nature, and it's our responsibilty to limit how much they see. But of course we all know how corrupt everything is, and no matter how many studies we do, cigs will always be selling somewhere....

Yea and if you saw Hanna Montana cutting her wrists i bet you'd do that too wouldn't ya? (speaking rhetorically to impressionable youth)

Doi, Why do you think they cut the wrist slicing part out of Britneys vid for "Everytime", and instead used the take where she is laughing in the bathtub. They knew that some little girl would kill herself and have Britneys vid or track on a loop while she would be floating in a sea of red.

We give kids (especially teens) too much credit while at the same time treating them like children and not discussing issues with them with a respect for their opinion.

We need to start including our children (especially mid to teen aged) in discussions that touch on issues they will face in their future. We do not have to go into graphic detail or put too much in the minds of our youth, however, they need to be aware of the things they may face or encounter in the real world. Even while we (as parents or older siblings) are there.

Even with love and support it is easy for a young person to make a bad decision, and they need to be aware of certain situations that could occur if they execute poor judgement.

Yeah but smoking is cool.

DUH... look how cool they are.

I am 17....that means I am a teenager, that means I am the type of person that you think hollywood can modify.
I am 17 and have never taken a drag of a cig or anything.
Do you know why? Because when I see James Dean, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando all the classic guys smoking I think, wow they look cool. Then I think, but I'd rather live an extra 15 years.

I think you don't give enough credit to young people. We're not all monkeys and copy what we see. My mum smokes, I don't, my dad use to smoke. I don't, both my aunties smoke. I don't. My brother smokes, I don't.

Its as simple as saying no.

Warm weather and driving with my window down make me want to smoke a cig. Then I remember I only smoke weed.

Yeah,... we're truly worried about what the entertainment biz is making our kids do,... that's why violence and prejudice no longer appear in most of our films.
When I was young, the only movie content that was verboten was violence. Start there. Then we can worry about the Simon-Says-Monkey-See-SELF-destructive habits.

fight to keep cigarettes in movies! thats how you tell who the cool characters are. for all you weak willed bastards stop blaming the movies for your own faults.

censorship sucks!

I can understand people being upset with the influence of smoking in the media, but we are supposed to live in a free and democratic society. Film makers have a right to put whatever they want in their movies as long as they do not impede on the rights of others. Most people have enough self control to stay away from cigarettes no matter the light in which they are shown. Smokers are smokers.