Wednesday, September 21, 2011

UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies: Idiots of the Day

More droppings of wisdom from those that want to make Casablanca an adult only movie...

Films that depict actors smoking should be handed an automatic 18 certificate, according to research published by the Thorax, a medical journal co-owned by the British Thoracic Society.

The report, produced by researchers from the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, called for movies that feature smoking to attract a similar age classification to those that portray sex or violence. Their study of more than 5,000 adolescents found that 15-year-olds who saw the most films showing actors smoking were 73% more likely to have tried it than those who had seen the fewest.


But depicting violence for those under 18? Bring it on...

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