Smoking in the Movies....oh the Depravity!

MPAA adds smoking as film-rating factor.

Apparently, it sends the wrong message to the masses when they see actors smoking in a movie. What's next? People eating ice cream in movies promotes obesity? Driving cars in movies promotes air pollution?

Since when did the movie industry take on the responsibility of correcting all of our society's ills (real and perceived)?

......oh, yeah.....I guess I forgot about the death penalty, and the environment, and the President of the United States, etc., etc.

In all fairness to the MPAA, even the U.S. Post Office got into the act by cleaning up a little of its history a while back. They airbrushed over the cigarette that an airmail pilot was holding in a classic photo from the 1920's that was used in one of their promotional posters. (see unaltered original at right)

With the snowballing effect of the anti-smoking hysteria, it's just a matter of time before tobacco is completely outlawed. Eventually we can expect our prisons to be over-crowded with people who have been caught smoking in public (and even in private).

But I have a better idea.

Let's force smokers to undergo an intensive "re-education program" that converts them into Anti-Smoking Activists. These former smokers will be so disgusted with what they've become, they will surely commit suicide.

Problem solved.