A class action lawsuit against the Motion Picture Association of America—claiming “tobacco imagery” in Hollywood movies brainwashes our youth—would have every film with as much as puff receive an R rating.
Among recent films targeting tender young minds with alluring swirls of smoke, the suit cites 2015 Bond flick Spectre, in which a skeleton puffs a cigar, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They’d slap an R rating on Gandalf the Grey’s baroque smoke rings? Not quite Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones sexily smoking in outer space.
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