I'm not surprised the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, AmeriKan MSM missed the point and dumped on Cameron at the same time.
"Smoking being snuffed out in Hollywood movies, study finds; Fuels call for ban on tobacco in films" by Arielle Fridson, Bloomberg News | August 20, 2010
NEW YORK — Film directors’ dependence on cigarettes as a style setter is lessening, researchers led by Stanton Glantz said yesterday in a report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While Sigourney Weaver’s smoking in 2009’s “Avatar’’ sparked controversy, the number of tobacco-related incidents fell by almost half in last year’s top movies, compared with 2005.
Actually, I thought the movie raised PROFOUNDLY DIFFERENT DEBATES.
My favorite line of the movie is after she was shot and was escaping in the helicopter after Jake told her they were going to get help from the Nav'i.
Her response: "Why would they help us?"
I can barely type that without tearing up.
Efforts to fight tobacco in films, including the Smoke Free Movies project headed by Glantz, may be having an effect on Hollywood, according to an editorial note attached to the report in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Further steps, such as assigning R ratings to movies that show people smoking, may be needed to stamp out onscreen tobacco, according to the note.
Plenty of violence and nudity available, though.
And isn't that going to diminish some character-actor roles?
“The bad news is that 54 percent of PG-rated movies still have smoking in them,’’ said Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco.
What about all the soda and fast food placement ads?
The editorial note in the CDC publication represents the strongest statement to date by federal health officials that steps should be taken to combat movie depictions of smoking, Glantz said. “Having the CDC weigh in is a very, very big deal,’’ he said....
Will you NANNY-STATERS please LEAVE US ALONE and let us make our OWN CHOICES about what we put into our bodies?
Glantz’s Smoke Free Movies campaign ran print advertisements to protest the smoking scenes in “Avatar,’’ which was directed by James Cameron.
Well, that SURE was a WASTE of MONEY!
“James Cameron did us a gigantic favor with ‘Avatar’; it became such a controversy all by itself that it substantially advanced the issue,’’ Glantz said. He said he sent the director a fruit basket to thank him....
Unreal!
That is the lesson they wish to learn from "Avatar?"
In the United States, smoking is responsible for almost 1 in 5 deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.
And it is a LEGAL PRODUCT?
Good Lord, they are SELLING DEATH in those smoke sticks!!
And WHY are we getting BOATLOADS of stories about "terrorists" and global warming when SMOKING is a FAR WORSE THREAT?!!
US Representatives Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Joseph R. Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican, have urged the Motion Picture Association of America to reduce youth exposure to smoking in movies.
In a letter yesterday, the legislators said the industry should consider recommendations including mandatory R ratings for films with smoking and a ban on the mention of tobacco brands.We are paying them for that?
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Related: War Worship Weekend: Avatars in Afghanistan
Also consider (caption from a missing photograph of Jake and Neytiri that drew me to the piece):
""Avatar," which has become the highest-grossing movie of all-time and was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, has set the bar high for the success of 3-D movies (Boston Globe March 27 2010)."
I guess that is why the Globe doesn't like it either; however, the WORLD UNDERSTANDS what Cameron was trying to say!
