Smoke-free movies are an ongoing issue.
There are groups that support smoke-free movies and groups who are against
them. Me, I support smoke-free movies. Movies with smoke scenes should be
banned from children films completely. Even if they got someone older to buy
the ticket, they should not be able to get in to watch the movies.
According to the U.S. Surgeon
General, “the adoption of such policies would contribute to reduction in
adolescents smoking behavior.” He is basically saying if we adopt these anti-tobacco
methods in movies for youth such as me, it will advise us not to smoke just
because we see it in movie. In 2012, there were a total of 2,818 tobacco
incidents in the top arising movies, compared to 1,880 in 2011, and 1,819 in
2010 when the total number of incidents reached its lowest level since 2002.
This means that each year, the numbers of incidents we see in movies are
increasing by a great deal. An incident is when there is a scene in the movies
that has tobacco in it as: someone smoking, chewing tobacco, or name brands of
tobacco show up. If we let each year rise a little more with the incidents in
movies, that’s not only giving across the message to smoke for young ones, but
also getting actors addicted to smoking.
Smoke-free movies will help young
teens not start smoking. It can also help actors quit and be warned of the
dangers of starting to smoke. The Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down Project is a good way
to see if the movie has a good rating on how much tobacco is in a movie. The
website is www.scenesmoking.com and will
give you any information on the movie and its amount of smoke scenes. Movies
are rated by pink and black lung. The pink lung is semi-okay amounts of
incidents in the movie. The black lung rating means that there were a lot of
incidents in the movie. Having smoke-free movies is a war we need to win.
Movies do influence youth a lot so be careful what you let your children watch
because the message from that movie can become a deadly lifestyle later in
life.
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