Smoking In The Movies

[amayagab]

Can't say I agree with some of these. Frida was a heavy smoker in real life, to not show her smoking would have been insulting.

[TheHahacienda]

thats really dangrous

[Wizarrdd]

If weed was legalized I'd give up tobacco.

[bruyantoui]

Erm so none of these examples are from the past 5 years (post-2005) and most are from the late nineties. A lot has changed since 1997 (13 years ago) so how about you show some contemporary examples before claiming this to be a contemporary problem.

[pzadvance]

@bruyantoui video was made in '06 dawg as clearly stated in the info and it was pretty awful anyway im not really sure why it's still up and very unsure as to why it's still accruing comments

[Mamaluvsmambo]

If you think smoking in movies is the most harmful things for teens today, I have a bridge in Kansas I want to sell you...........

[nicoleakalilqueenie]

Bette Davis made smoking look cool! ;)

[needles1987]

I hate that they took out smoking in movies. Especially in period pieces. It takes out the nostalgia.

[DreamingxFaeriex]

I love this<3

[bluedogguy]

I think women look sexy when they smoke. I hope hollywood continues to allow their beautiful starlets the room to express their sexuality thru their oral habits.

[Vlaydex]

"Oral Habits" I love it!!

[ThraigMovies]

Smoking is a way of life for approximately 33% of over 16s. To protray the world as a non smoking place is not realistic.

Besides, if you put a blanket ban on all smoking in movies, how can anyone do a film about the dangers of smoking tobacco or other substances?

[amayagab]

We all have the right to do whatever we want to our own bodies and if it kills us so be it. Besides, if you start smoking because you saw any of these shitty actors smoke, then you were probably at the bottom of he evolutionary gene-pool and natural selection has done it's job by weeding you out.

[Graymalkin2001]

Considering the gamut of behaviours, attitudes and ideologies kids are exposed to in the entertainment media, perhaps smoking is the least harmful in the long run.

[nicoleakalilqueenie]

@Graymalkin2001 ---> Well said!

[ofwhobrokewhat]

these movies are old

[diddymuck]

Hollywood's scheme for getting girls to smoke. Young actress plays innocent girl in first movie; a year later plays different role, perhaps a single working girl who smokes. Think I'm kidding? Check careers of: Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, Kate Winslet, Winola Ryder, Anglela Jolie, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, ETC ETC ETC

[diddymuck]

Thank you! I've been trying to make that plain for years to people.

[Jonatheng]

So what?

Good movies are a reflection of real life, people in real life smoke. The days when people didn't know about the health effects of smoking are over. Have some fucking personal accountability

Also, the whole 52% of kids "fact" is the biggest load of crap.

[jtking2504]

@Jonatheng, if it was simply an issue of whether people 'know about the health effects of smoking' then why is advertising it banned? Because it promotes a harmful product, especially to young, impressionable people as being something cool, when in fact, it is simply a harmful substance that will lead many to a cancer ward, chemo treatment and an early grave. You rarely if ever see that reality in these movies.

Film companies are being funded by tobacco for 'product placement'

[katana82]

This song is E-pro by Beck.

If it's done right, smoking in movies can be so sexy

[lastmiles]

yeah .. nothing says sexy like a girl that smells like an ashtray. A kiss is like cancer and all her clothes stink.

[qtipfor4]

What's this song?

[variouscooldotcom]

Why the fuss over smoking? The way films portray women and men is much worse a lot of times.

[airtondias]

cool

[DanTheTwinPope]

Sick of this fucking propaganda from both ends. Anti-Smoking organizations, SHUT THE FUCK UP... Especially that douche who goes around asking if milk is more dangerous.

[shitforbrains744]

I hate that fuckin black dickhead too!

[diddymuck]

This formula is as old as movies. from Katherine Hepburn to Wynola Ryder and beyond.

[diddymuck]

how its done. 1 find cute very young actress. 2 put her in movie as young innocent girl. 3 Hype movie and make it successful 4 Next film actress is older by 2-3 years, and is cast as a young adult. 5. have her character seen smoking. 6. all young girls watching first film see idealized girl smoking in next film. THE SEED OF INTEREST IS NOW PLANTED.

[MakaveliDaDon777]

fucc ciggarettes you should make one about weed

[unstoppablepacific]

Oh yeah, and thirdly... how do you infer that tobacco companies are behind the smoking in movies? Any evidence? Didn't think so. I understand smoking is bad, but let's not just make stuff up when we attack it.

[pzadvance]

And this: "Tobacco companies know how influential the media can be. That's why [they] have paid movie producers 100s of 1000s of dollars to promote cigarettes in the movies - it's called product placement. Tobacco companies paid to have the movie's stars smoke their brand of cigarettes on screen...

[unstoppablepacific]

Ridiculous claim. Care to post info on where we can find this "recent study" that shows 52% of teens without smoking parents started smoking "because of exposure to smoking in movies"? Show me the study. And secondly, even if that was true, which it's not, I hear that people actually smoke in real life too, so why should they not do it in movies? But good luck on your social engineering mission.

[pzadvance]

"Another study found that 52 percent of teens with non-smoking parents started smoking because of exposure to smoking in movies."

From this website, also known as the American Lung Association: w w w .lungusa(.)org/site/pp.asp?c=d­vLUK9O0E&b=39871

I never said it was believable, but I sure as $#!+ didn't pull it out of thin air.

[unstoppablepacific]

Didn't mean to imply you made it up, just that the study sounds flaky based on such a claim. I can't access the study itself but if the ALA's citing it I guess I can't fault you too much for using it. However, the claim itself looks very suspicious to me.

[unstoppablepacific]

Found the study: h t t p://image.thelancet(.)com/extr­as/03art1353web.pdf

Looks much better done than i thought. However, the ALA and your video are misrepresenting the findings of the study.

[unstoppablepacific]

When you say the 52% of teens without smoking parents "started smoking", it sounds like they took up the habit. The study merely says they "initiated smoking" (page 1 "findings"), which by their definition can mean a teen tried as little as "a few puffs".

[unstoppablepacific]

Their explicit definition of "smoking initiation" (page 2 "Procedures") contradicts the implicit definition of "started smoking" that you used. Some of those 52% percent you say "started smoking" merely took a few puffs and never tried it again.

[chasrusso]

What are you trying to say? That they would TWIST the results to suit their own agenda? INCONCEIVABLE!

[firehorse79420]

Why only recent movies? I would have liked to see 2 movie scenes per year, going backwards all the way to "silent films". Nice job, though. I don't agree since my parents don't smoke and I do, but I like hearing/seeing other opinions.

[redheadSU]

k9feces...smoking is also killing stupid

[k9feces]

Smoking should be in movies, cause people smoke in real life. Smoking is enjoyable.

[Cuzit69]

This is getting stupid. Kids are smoking because of one thing one day and something else the next. I'm in the process of writing a novel with the main character as a smoker, and do I care about "influencing kids?" No! It fits his character! I haven't watched ANY of these movies, but I would assume it's not just something thrown in to try to get kids into smoking!

[unstoppablepacific]

Sure it's not just something thrown in to get kids into smoking... sure... (kidding)

[pzadvance]

"The companies knew that teens who like the stars would also begin to like the idea of smoking, and show special interest in the brand of their favourite star." (h t t p : / / smokefreemovies.ucsf . edu/problem/bigtobacco . html)

Nobody's saying that Big Tobacco is behind every single cigarette in every single movie, that would be ridiculous. But there's concrete evidence to prove that they've paid to put their cigarettes in in the hands of stars that appeal most to teenagers.

[unstoppablepacific]

I believe it was in the late 90's that a federal law was passed forbidding the practice of tobacco product placement in movies. Tobacco companies are not allowed to pay studios for such placement, nor to compensate them in any other way, by donating accomodations, props, whatever. That said, I'm sure if someone really tried they could work around the system, but i've seen no evidence that this has happened yet.

[unstoppablepacific]

No, you didn't say BT is behind "every single cigarette in every single film". But you did say "Reveals how cigarette companies target teens through film." The implication seems to be that every one of your clips in the video is there because of BT's targeting of youth. As a filmmaker myself, if someone ever stated that and showed clips of people smoking from my films, I'd have to say that's completely false and unfair.

[inatspong]

very true... smoking in movie does increase the want fro kids to do it. however it may not be tobacco companies making them do it all the time.

[yan2jt]

nice rob

[yorkyelit]

This movie is amazing! Love the ending message!

[DaBeast117]

Nice job Rob.

[renew021]

hey rob i liked your movie. great to be in the paper with a picture up huh? your on the front page! Cool video . maybe we could get together soon. Your next door neighbor, Gabe