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Should they ban smoking on TV?
by Bob Sassone, posted Jul 26th 2007 12:01PM
So Disney says that they're not going to have anyone smoking in their future movies. I guess that means we won't see Toy Story 4: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em. But it got me thinking: will we see a ban of cigarette smoking on TV too?
Of course, you don't see much smoking on TV shows nowadays. Cigarette commercials were banned years ago, and you never see someone smoking on a talk show (I watched an old Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder online the other day and everyone was smoking) or a sitcom (unless it's a "very special episode" about the dangers of smoking, and those are probably herbal cigarettes). Once in a while you'll see a cigar or a random cigarette on a drama (Matt Albie smoked on Studio 60).
But could they ban smoking on TV altogether?
Out of the Blogosphere
by Bob Sassone, posted Apr 29th 2007 7:14PM
TV's Barn's Aaron Barnhart on the return of Roger Ebert. - In the wake of the Alec Baldwin controversy, Buzzsugar wants to know if an actor's off-screen behavior affects how you see their work.
- Does smoking on TV and in the movies cause kids to smoke in real life?
- MSNBC has canceled The Most, but Alison Stewart is staying with the network.
- There's been a last minute plot twist in that Will & Grace trial.
- They took a lot of creative license on Cheers.
- Lost Remote hates those AT&T/Cingular commercials.
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