We all talk about pollution, about forbidding diesel engines, cars in general in Europe, but no one talks about the cigarette usage promoted heavily in movies. This habit puts directly into human lungs more than a dozen toxins and cinema, governments, green activists and in general the public opinion has nothing against it.
The image of a strong, sophisticated character in a movie is easy to put in practice by using a cigar in a hero’s hand, mouth etc. It’s in vain debating about the fact that governments subsidize some films which are encouraging this deadly habit.
* Governments are then spending public money to heal the wounds, the lungs cancers in hospitals. Is it only me who sees this vicious circle or we all see it and pretend we don’t? *
Governments should stop financing films who advertise cigarette usage and the smoking habit. This cynic circle should disappear and we should all be aware about the simple fact that smoking on the big screen is destructive and a terribly harmful behavior for human beings, children, and influence able adolescents in particular.
* Most of the national health services have programs fighting against smoking, and lots of money are spent in these programs. Separately, same public money goes into financing films which promote smoking on a very big screen. And you know what? The diesel cars they want to stop being produced due to air pollution are not even subsidized from public funds.*
Are we blind, are we hypocrites, or are we simply ignorant? We stopped advertising cigarettes on TV, but we advertise them in movies big time.
Author: Nicolae Popa
popa1905@gmail.com
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