In an effort to protect America’s youth from bad habits, the American Medical Association Alliance is calling for an R rating for any movie that contains smoking. An example cited by the group is the recent X-Men Origins: Wolverine film, which, in addition to violent fighting and over-sexualized superheroes, depicts the main character smoking a cigar.
Members of the alliance also evidenced several studies that vaguely showed that teens who like movies with smoking in them are more likely to smoke, and that this is enough proof to ruin the authenticity of films depicting the 1950s. Their blind anti-smoking mantra led them to several conclusions that would make one think that alcohol is not a problem among teens at all. While many reasonable non-smoking Americans would tell these folks that they’re going too far, their crusade to turn our country into a giant school campus continues.
