Movies that include
smoking without warning are negatively affecting our communities. I strongly
stand for having smoke-free movies. The numbers of smoking impacts in movies
are high. According to the Master Settlement Agreement, “PG-13 movies on
average contained nearly as much smoking as R- rated films with smoking in
2011-2012. This is really serious because “identifying what can cause kids to
be experiment with smoking cigarettes is important because one-third of those
who try smoking become addicted.” All this proves that this is truly a serious
problem. When watching movies and we see the incidents with cigarettes in our
brains we think “oh it’s okay and cool so let’s go smoke” it basically bribes
the children to tobacco. According to Stanton A. Glantz, a PhD Professor,
“Tobacco companies make billions of sales off their products by advertising
them in movies, which gets tons of kid’s attention resulting in a recruit of
390,000 new kids hooked onto tobacco.”
Some
people may be fully against this problem because they don’t feel like the kids
will really pay attention or know what’s going on in the film when they truly
do. Especially for those who smoke they may feel like it’s no one’s fault but
the kid’s because those people feel it has nothing to do with them. Those
people aren’t worried about anyone’s health, not even their own as you can see;
they wouldn’t be smoking if otherwise. I hear smokers commonly say “it’s just a
movie, nothing real, all fake.” That isn’t at all true.
All I am saying is that kids can’t control the fact that
the movies that are made especially for them aren’t exactly the right kind of
material for them. Kids should have the right to be warned for their own good
and for ours. The numbers are always rising and will continue to rise if there
is no one to step up and make change. You wouldn’t want anyone to take your
life, so you shouldn’t take anyone else’s.
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