Must be a thing back in the late 1880s of kids and teens smoking and drinking before the 18 on smoking and 21 drink laws
"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love"
The 21 to drink is the United States of America.
This movie takes place in Europe. Some places in Europe don't have drinking ages. Some have it at 14, most of them at 16, few of them at 18.
America's neighbor Canada has it at 19 with the exception of two places where it's 18.
Someone wanna remind me why America has it at 21?
In the past, very few people were fully aware of the dangers of smoking and Drinking.
It wasn't until sometime in the mid-late 80s that smoking as looked down upon like it is now. At least that's what I read
Jiminy Cricket did chide Pinoke very harshly right before Lampwick insulted him as a grasshopper. Obviously since Pinnochio was a minor even flor that place and time
shareNot to mention gambling on pool. Nowadays we see pool as mild entertainment, but once, and in some places still, it was major gambling.
But what kind of sins did you want him to commit? Visiting a whore house? He had to do something wrong...
A lot of children held full-time jobs back then, why shouldn't they have a smoke and a drink and a game of pool after they got off work, same as any other working stiff?
Although maybe not specifically when "Pinocchio" came out, child labor was outlawed in the US some time in the 1930s, I'm not sure when. A lot of our more humane labor laws came from that era, such as the 8 hour day and forbidding anyone under 16 to hold a full-time job. Unemployment was massive and a huge social problem, child labor was basically outlawed to make more jobs available to adults.