Joho the Blog
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June 04, 2005
The Financial Times reports that India is going to start pixellating cigarettes in movies to avoid glamorizing them. Alternatively, they may run health warnings on screen whenever a cigarette appears. Doesn't the Indian government know that in American movies smoking is a sure sign that you're a bad guy/gal whose comeuppance will come long before lung cancer can take hold? The regrettable exception are action heroes who substitute not shaving and smoking for acting talent. Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 4, 2005 07:13 AM
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saw a link to this post via the Mac OS X.4 Yahoo news widget -- bet you get a lot of traffic! -RB
Posted by: Chris Locke | June 4, 2005 09:44 AM
oh duh! your post was in that Yahoo news thing because the Joho blog is in my MyYahoo (could they have thougt up a dumber name?) rss reader profile. blushing. -RB
Posted by: Chris Locke | June 4, 2005 10:19 AM
A favorite South Park moment - everyone lambasting a smoker after visiting the Museum of Tolerance.
Posted by: Rob | June 4, 2005 02:20 PM
Connie Willis's Remake gets more prescient every day. Sadly.
Posted by: Kevin Marks | June 6, 2005 05:59 AM
And if you want to see the movie without pixellating cigarettes you habe to be 21, or what?
Posted by: Zeitschriften Abo | June 6, 2005 09:00 AM
i was bad with guys adout this is get you
Posted by: bad katie | June 14, 2005 03:33 PM
i was bad with guys adout this is get you
Posted by: bad katie | June 14, 2005 03:33 PM
I hope none of the stupid-ass politicians in America see this. It will give them more ideas at how to attack smokers. I bet they will think of a way to tax movies with cigarette scenes.
Posted by: David McAllister | September 23, 2005 06:58 AM
cigarettes are horrible. i wish they would be taken off this earth. so many people i know have died from those horrible nasty things. EWW! i wish that the world would go back to solving world hunger instead of smoking a "cancer stick" please lord. i'm begging you, take these evil demons away!!
i love all of god's little children.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 24, 2005 02:58 PM
cigarettes are horrible. i wish they would be taken off this earth. so many people i know have died from those horrible nasty things. EWW! i wish that the world would go back to solving world hunger instead of smoking a "cancer stick" please lord. i'm begging you, take these evil demons away!!
i love all of god's little children.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 24, 2005 02:58 PM
i hate sigerets they are deskusting .they give you lung canser and turn your lungs black they shodof never made them couse people get adicted your thinking how dose this little girl no all this whell my mom is adikded and she ceeps saying that she will stop but she dosent she never will
Posted by: mackala Gather | January 15, 2006 09:12 AM