Anti-Smoking Campaigners attack 007
It turns out that anti-smoking campaigners had lobbied the British Board of Film Classification, and more precisely the James Bond film Die Another Day over the “glamorization of smoking”.
During the film, James lights up a stick, and it was thought by the campaigners that this would influence young people to start smoking. If young people were to take influence from everything that Bond is known for, we’d have a young society full of Beretta toting, martini drinking, reckless driving, casino gambling, one-night-stand chasing and cigarette (with the occasional cigar) smoking teenagers.
Luckily the BBFC stepped in and presented clips of the film containing cigar smoking to focus groups, and the response was favorable; “They were quite happy with it and thought a junior audience were unlikely to take it up.”
This isn’t the first time that Bond has come under fire for his bad habits. In the film The World is not Enough, you can see a “No Smoking” sign on the dashboard of his BMW. So all-in-all, it’s a good thing that Bond has kicked the cigarette habit and moved onto cigars, however lets hope that he wont age to the point of pipe smoking.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4111094
Have a Cigar Mr. Bond!!
During the film, James lights up a stick, and it was thought by the campaigners that this would influence young people to start smoking. If young people were to take influence from everything that Bond is known for, we’d have a young society full of Beretta toting, martini drinking, reckless driving, casino gambling, one-night-stand chasing and cigarette (with the occasional cigar) smoking teenagers.
Luckily the BBFC stepped in and presented clips of the film containing cigar smoking to focus groups, and the response was favorable; “They were quite happy with it and thought a junior audience were unlikely to take it up.”
This isn’t the first time that Bond has come under fire for his bad habits. In the film The World is not Enough, you can see a “No Smoking” sign on the dashboard of his BMW. So all-in-all, it’s a good thing that Bond has kicked the cigarette habit and moved onto cigars, however lets hope that he wont age to the point of pipe smoking.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4111094
Have a Cigar Mr. Bond!!
posted by Fumo Santo | 1:02 PM
1 Comments:
Yes, I find the whole anti-smoking campaign to be entirely hypocritical in nature. Especially the "truth" ads that are prominent on american television. They are so concerned about the ill effects of tobacco usage and yet many of these groups, comprised mainly of generation Xrs, are likely to be the first ones to twist off a fattie and drift of into a "herb" induced funk. You see them gathered outside of "Big Tobacco" headquarters staging protests but they are conspicuously absent from "Big Alcohol" establishments. It seems they are more than happy to deride your vices but turn a stubborn blind eye to equally (if not more) unhealthy practices embraced by their generation.
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