Movie group imposes new restrictions on smoking
Attention film producers: smoking may now be dangerous to your movies.
The film industry group that tastes U.S. movies in the field of their aptness for children recently disclosed new rules affecting tobacco use in films that would stop children from watching movies that glorified lighting cigarettes up on-screen.
The Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, informed that in the past, illegal teen smoking has been just one of the factors while films approval, alongside other paternal concerns such as sex, coercion and adult language.
But now smoking itself will be regarded as a separate factor and depictions that eulogize smoking, or movies that outline pervasive smoking, may receive categories that do not permit children into theaters to see them.
The only exclusion to that rule is films where the smoking is documentally important like "Good Night, and Good Luck," which portrayed the life of chain-smoking journalist Edward R. Murrow. The film was classified as PG, meaning that parents could take elder children to see it. According to the new rules, that level would have remained the same, an MPAA official reported.
The MPAA classifies movies appropriate for all children as "G," whereas an "R" rating limits audiences to people 17 years or elder, among its category.
The industry group has long been under influence from different health groups to prohibit children from watching characters light cigs and tobacco up in movies, a habitual screen tradition, and the MPAA’s decision fell short of that purpose.
