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How powerful are the images children see in movies?\u00a0<\/p>\nHow powerful are the images children see in movies?\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an age old question that has brought about much debate over the last few years.\u00a0 The argument has been made the violent movies or video games make a child more likely to be dangerous, but what if they see someone smoking in a movie?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Does that make them more like to become a smoker? The World Health Organization says yes.<\/p>\n
A new movie rating:<\/strong> Incentives for movie makers:<\/strong> Opposition to the idea:<\/strong> \u201cNo one has definitively demonstrated that watching others smoke onscreen leads to more smoking among those in the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to say, \u201cMost of the studies purporting to show that link are muddied by many other factors in kids’ lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Others believe the ratings system isn\u2019t an adequate way to shield kids since they can access movies online or at a friend\u2019s house.<\/p>\n How powerful are the images children see in movies?\u00a0 It\u2019s an age old question that has brought about much debate over the last few years.\u00a0 The argument has been made the violent movies or video games make a child more likely to be dangerous, but what if they see someone smoking in a movie?\u00a0 Does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nThe World Health Organization is trying to give movies that involve smoking a special rating so parents will know that smoking is involved in a movie.\u00a0 The health organization believes 390,000 American kids smoke because of what they see onscreen and believe that imposing adult ratings on films that include actors smoking would likely prevent 200,000 youngsters from becoming smokers.<\/p>\n
\nThere is also mention of offering more financial incentives, by way of public subsides, to those movie makers that don\u2019t put smokers in their movie.\u00a0\u00a0 However, not everyone agrees with this incentive, or the rating system itself.<\/p>\n
\n“Movies showing smoking might have a lot more in them that might appeal to youth at risk of smoking than just smoking,” Simon Chapman, a professor at the University of Sydney said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.edrugstore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smoke31.jpg\")
Parents sound off:<\/strong>
\nSmoking is already a prevalent problem among youth<\/a>, and but some parents say a new rating system won’t change that.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what all the movie ratings mean as it is,\u201d Donna Levine said.\u00a0 \u201cI pay attention to what my kids watch but a new rating for a movie what do much for me.\u201d\u00a0 Another mother disagreed,\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t see how it could hurt,\u201d Rachel Janderson said.\u00a0 \u201cIf there is smoking there other issues, smoking and drinking typically go together<\/a>, and they are both things I don’t want my kid watching.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"