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Cigarette-smoking, violence, and shooting monkey among complaints to film watchdog

The Irish Film Classification Office (Ifco) has received complaints over its rating of several children’s animations ...
Digital Journal

Call for smoking to be removed from children’s movies

This is the request from a Canadian group called the Ontario Coalition for Smoke-Free Movies. The group are fired up about this issue and plan to protest at the annual Toronto International Film ...
Variety

States urge Valenti: Put out pics’ smoking

The attorneys general of 24 states sent a letter Tuesday to Motion Picture Assn. of America president Jack Valenti saying the industry should reduce the amount of smoking in films to prevent teens ...
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France to ban smoking in schools, parks, beaches to protect children

Brigitte Bardot lounged barefoot on a beach in Saint-Tropez, taking long puffs of a cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, strode down the Champs-Élysées, smoke billowing from his provocative ...