Films that "glamorize smoking" may soon receive a more restrictive rating according to the ratings board.
Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2007-05-10
Author: Jim Puzzanghera, Times Staff Writer
Intro: The Motion Picture Assn. of America announced today that smoking will be considered when rating movies and "depictions that glamorize smoking or movies that feature pervasive smoking outside of an historic or other mitigating context may receive a higher rating."
Smoking will become a factor in decisions by the Classification and Rating Administration, along with violence, language, nudity, drug abuse and other elements.
"There is broad awareness of smoking as a unique public health concern due to nicotine's highly addictive nature, and no parent wants their child to take up the habit,'' MPAA Chief Executive Dan Glickman said. "The appropriate response of the rating system is to give more information to parents on this issue."
But the MPAA resisted calls by some antismoking advocacy groups to give any film with smoking a mandatory "R" rating . . .
Films whose ratings are affected by smoking will include explanations, such as "glamorized smoking" or "pervasive smoking."
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Films whose ratings are affected by smoking will include such explanations, according to new rules by the Motion Picture Assn. of America .
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