R RESTRICTED
Under 17 requires accompanying
Parent or Adult Guardian

Strong Language included
A scene of sexual dialogue
A scene with a actor smoking

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That said, banning for placing a restriction on smoking in the movies is stupid! Just because some idiot sticks a toy car up his rectum and goes to see a doctor doesn't mean I am going to do it. Just because some dork drives his car off of a cliff doesn't mean I am going to drive my minivan off of a cliff. Just because I thought it was cool when Keanu Reeves shot like a thousand bullets in Matrix doesn't mean I am going to do the same. Just because some guy in a movie goes to bed with 5 high school babes doesn't mean I will. (Damn!) Just because some babe looks very sexy lighting up a cigarette in a movie doesn't mean I don't find cigarettes nasty and disgusting. After all, I don't have to kiss that woman in the movie. And by the way, I can't smell or breathe cigarette smoke that happens on film in a movie.

The concept of personal responsibility seems to have gone missing.

I still think smoking should be allowed in Bars that have no restaurants.

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Someone goes to bed with someone else and an ad could pop-up and say, "To prevent pregnancy, use condoms." Two gay guys kiss and a pop-up could say "fight HIV, use condoms!" A kid starts to seduce a 15-year-old girl and the pop-up says "Remember kids it's statutory rape to have sex with an under-aged person." During the car chase the pop-up could say, "speed kills. Please keep it under the speed limit." During the atomic blast scene, "Write your congressman and encourage him to sign the anti-nuclear proliferation bill." And finally when Bogart gives Ingrid Bergman a cigarette it could say, "The United States Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking causes cancer." When a woman sips a drink, "The Surgeon General has determined that drinking causes birth defects."

Putting smoking in the ratings reasons is absurd, though. Our local newspaper in West Palm Beach ran a small column in the weekend movie section called "Is it OK for Kids" or something. Here, they listed absolutely everything remotely questionable, including smoking, drinking, women being hurt, and car accidents that was in the movie. While it may be useful to some people who want to shield themselves (or their children) from the dreaded on-screen-second-hand-smoke, it should not be a condition that determines a film's rating.
"Uh oh! Jack asked to 'Bum a smoke' in Titanic! We have to give it an R!!"

What's next? Going back and adding ratings reasons for films that "Contain images of the World Trade Center" Wait! No! I don't want to give anyone any ideas.

Gordon -- I've often wondered about places that don't allow pipe or cigar smoking. My mom's friend smoked a pipe, and I found it to be a lot less irritating to be around than cigarettes.

But it serves no purpose to tag a movie with an R-rating or special warning just because cigarette smoking is involved. Also, do the proponents of this rule know what kind of effect it will have? I strongly doubt it.

Many people want to discourage teen smoking. Teenagers have more smoke belching out of their heads than the smoke stacks of a steel mill. Teens think smoking is cool, primarily because they are not supposed to do it. It is rebellious behavior. What will happen by plastering new "smoking warnings" on movies? More teens will smoke.

This is just like those Parental Advisory stickers on music CDs with foul language and lurid content. That's like the quality seal of approval for many teens. They're listening to the "tough" music then.

Hell, I remember when Tipper Gore was addressing a senate subcommittee on behalf of the PMRC. She held up the W.A.S.P. 12" album single "Animal: I F**k like a Beast". The cover art featured a blood-drenched fellow wearning a cod-piece equipped with a circular saw blade. My reaction to that (keep in mind I was like 16 at the time) was to run out and buy a copy.

If people want to discourage smoking, particularly among teens, they have to find ways to embarrass the living shit out of teens who smoke. Insult them. Ridicule them. Make them feel like they have been accused of not bathing in a week or brushing their teeth at all in the last year. Tell them they stink like shit. If teenagers can't score any cool points for smoking they might not do it. But just telling them "no, you can't smoke" is going to make them want to do it even more.