The US and now the UK seem to have passed that point.

Grease doesn’t have abortion, just a “false alar(u)m”.

TimC: Brilliant idea for your Improvisational Play “Waiting For Winston”.

I would have said said “Waiting for Marlborough/Marlboro”, etc but didn’t want to reopen that.

I quit smoking in ’97 but until it was banned here, enjoyed going down to my local to “inhale the atmosphere”.

As I get older, I notice that I’m starting to resent those who want to regulate every facet of my life. I remember that on election day too.

But then the Sound of Music has Nazis and Joseph is clearly a glorification of Zionism.

Things get even weirder (if that were possible) where smoking and cars are concerned; see my posting on the subject at http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/gov_uk_goes_mad_again .

A fine sentiment, but never underestimate the power of government to go batshit crazy When It’s For Your Own Good.

Example: when Massachusetts passed a law demanding that all stored guns have a trigger lock in place, the government jobsworths added a trigger lock to an 18th-century musket, hanging 18 feet above the ground, in the state capitol.

1) Pre-marital sex.
2) Teen sex.
3) Underage drinking.
4) Glorifying gangs.
5) Drag racing.
6) Smoking.
7) Impossibly thin body types (at least for Olivia in the movie).
8) Making fun of fat people.
9) Skipping class.
10) Defying authority.
11) Bullying.

And it’s just smoking that gets a bad rap?

If you took out everything anyone might object to, causing massive curvature of spines, blindness, hairy palms, green livers, and pregnant teens, you’d have about three minutes and some change.

In this age of youtube and editing software, someone should create a PC version (of the movie anyway). I don’t think you’d go over whatever time limit per post that they have. It would be pretty much Beauty School Dropout and Sandy slapping Danny at the drive in.

I should give it a try….

Nick M – certainly!

Stupid laws like this demand that they are torn apart using their own stupidity.

BTW I hate cigarette smoke, but pubs are pubs and if they are too smokey I go elsewhere. My choice.

“Dozens of climate scientists are trying to block the DVD release of a controversial Channel 4 programme that claimed global warming is nothing to do with human greenhouse gas emissions.
Sir John Houghton, former head of the Met Office, and Bob May, former president of the Royal Society, are among 37 experts who have called for the DVD to be heavily edited or removed from sale. The film, the Great Global Warming Swindle, was first shown on March 8, and was criticised by scientists as distorted and misleading.”….

This is the political power of “science”. Eugenism, Lysenkism, Global Warming…

Of course, I only know these things because I saw the original when it first came out.
Tell me…. what does it say on pig-Napoleon’s wall today?

Some movies will be much shorter, of course, and the plots ruined but the audience will be protected from the idea of smoking. People who, watching Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars, might well want to rush out to the wild west, don an iron plate under their vest and start blazing away with a six-gun while chewing a cheroot.

“When you’re a Jet…”