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guthmund · 05-14-2007, 07:25 AM

Is anyone really surprised at this?

Television and cinema have a long and storied history playing the role of propaganda machine in the country's nanny crusades. That is to say, television and cinema are the easiest ways to dissminate the appropriate message to the masses.

To be honest, considering the reletively recent loathing directed towards smokers, I thought this would have happened sooner. I mean, Nickelodeon has had its anti-fat kids campaign going for years now and I thought for sure we'd want to purge all those evil smokers before going after the disgusting fatties, right?

The hypocrisy of the MPAA and their randomness of their arbitrary ratings system has always been fairly well known. This smoking thing is just icing on the cake.

05-14-2007, 07:25 AM	#26 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	Is anyone really surprised at this? Television and cinema have a long and storied history playing the role of propaganda machine in the country's nanny crusades. That is to say, television and cinema are the easiest ways to dissminate the appropriate message to the masses. To be honest, considering the reletively recent loathing directed towards smokers, I thought this would have happened sooner. I mean, Nickelodeon has had its anti-fat kids campaign going for years now and I thought for sure we'd want to purge all those evil smokers before going after the disgusting fatties, right? The hypocrisy of the MPAA and their randomness of their arbitrary ratings system has always been fairly well known. This smoking thing is just icing on the cake. __________________ No signature. None. Seriously. Last edited by guthmund; 05-14-2007 at 07:36 AM..