A lot of people go to the movies for entertainment or to keep updated with the new movies. Being a parent, you wouldn’t want your kids to be exposed to anything bad at all, especially a movie with smoking in it. The highest rating when there is smoking in a movie is PG-13 should actually be rated higher.
In fact, 44% of adolescent tobacco initiation can be credited to exposure to smoking in movies. If the rating for violence is rated R, so should the rating for smoking in the movies. People say the reason behind violence being rated an R is because it will encourage kids to copy them or to resort to violence. But what about smoking? Wouldn’t a child want to smoke if their favorite actor or actress was smoking. I know when I was a kid when I watched "I love Lucy" and I saw Ricky Ricardo smoking I thought he was cool because he made everyone laugh and I wanted to make everyone laugh.
As a child sees violence, they think that is an acceptable way to solve things. People smoke to solve/relieve their stress or even just to look cool. Why wouldn’t a child think smoking is okay when everyone in a movie that you let them go to has smoking in it. To avoid going through all that process and talking to your kid about what was happening and what was wrong about it.
Cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and 43 known carcinogens. All of those are very deadly when consumed at daily. Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled. It has been found in every part of the body.
The MPAA should just give a rating of R whenever there is smoking in sight or when a you can obviously see a cigarette brand in plain view. Protecting our kids from smoking in the future will help us, them, and the environment. As Brooke Shields said,” Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.” We don’t want ours or anyone else’s kids losing that important part in their lives.
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