Aside from the nonsense of retrospectively R-rating all movies prior to the 1980s, presumably all of these films that have to be watched again to see if someone was not smoking in the background.
The lovely folks at Otago’s Public Health department have another great idea. This time, they want an R rating on any TV show where the characters smoke.
New Zealand researchers are calling for TV shows that feature smoking scenes to be rated R.
A University of Otago study found almost a third of shows on prime-time free-to-air television featured tobacco imagery and over 80 per cent of those showed smoking in a neutral or positive light.
While the total number of scenes featuring tobacco use had decreased when compared to a study in 2004, there had been little change.
Let’s think this through.
Broadcasts airing on free-to-air television are currently not under OFLC. An R-rating would be silly, and would make it harder for parents to tell which shows are full of, say, chainsaw massacres and which shows have somebody having a smoke. But it wouldn’t be crazy bad…
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