Did the tobacco companies help fund this movie?
There is an awful lot of cigarette smoking going on. can't anyone make a movie without cigarette smoking, it hurts to watch.
shareshut up
"If there was a room full of men, all coming at you, would you beat them all off?"
Is that all you have to say? See what cigarettes did to your mind.
shareFirstly, no to your original question. I'm sorry, but all this anti-smoking crap is getting old. Look, I'm a smoker, I do not like smoking, I am addicted, yes. But it wasn't from watching movies with people smoking. Have you ever watched a movie like, say, Requiem for a Dream and thought, 'Hey, those people in this movie I'm watching are shooting up heroin. It must be cool, so I'm going to go buy some and ride the white pony!"? No? Didn't think so.
Most people start smoking because people around them smoke. This is nothing knew. America is not the first country to smoke. And it started before the creation of movies or TV. Not to say that this justifies smoking and makes it any less hazardous, but it proves that people smoking in movies is not what makes people smoke.
Now, since this is all based on a true story, we can imagine that the mother and Elizabeth are, or at least at the time, smokers. Don't people usually bitch when movie adaptations of true life events don't get every little detail right? Smokers smoke.
sweet rant!
You fail at life
No, shooting up heroin was in the plot for that movie, smoking was not a part of the plot in Prozac Nation, now if it was a film about heart attacks, emphazema, lung cancer, dyspnea and a host of numerous other diseases, not counting out 2nd hand smoke that inconsiderate cigarette smokers leave for clean and young innocent lungs to breath in, or maybe a film about children living in a household of cigarette smokers (which I consider child endangerment), then there would be a lot of cigarette smoking going on, but to just fire up in a two minute scene that has nothing to do with the scene or the plot makes no sense to me, just to the cigarette companies who produce the cancer causing sticks, it's kind of like a post-hypnotic suggestion or to be even more blatant a monkey see monkey do thing. Good luck with your cigarette smoking.
Sweeter rant !, I agree, there was an enormous amount of unneccessary smoking in this movie, and I don't recall the book even mentioning smoking.
Non smoker forever !
Ok I appreciate your opinion (now that youve actually stated what it was) however I think the best advice that I can give you (I am a smoker) and that is blow it out your hole! I am an adult, I can make my own mind up and If people like you have such a problem with our "child endangering" habit then take your bundle of joy and *beep* off up a big mountain and live happily ever after there, away from the big bad smokers!
Oh and ps- if i could id totally blow my smoke in your face!!
You fail at life
Wow, she said more then two words, I thought your vaso-constricting habit was causing a major malfunction in your thinking process, and I think it still is because you're still not getting the point, point being; I never said anything derogatory about smokers in the original post, all I said was there was a lot of smoking in the movie that didn't have to be, hell they're probably non smokers themselves and smoking herbal cigarettes just to please the cigarette companies who helped fund the film, but go ahead and be a smart ass about smoking, you're only hurting yourself, and it's very unattractive for a girl or a woman to be smoking, in my opinion anyway, and on top of that you're most likely hurting your reproductive sysyem too. Just don't end up being one of those old woman that you see walking down the street crouched over pushing an oxygen tank with an oxygen mask plastered on your face, its not a pretty sight.
shareI know what your point was, I just thought it was stupid. which it is. Im only hurting myself? but what happened to "child endangerment" blah blah blah? however I dont smoke indoors, around people who dont smoke, around children etc etc etc so yeh i am only hurting myself. Unattractive for a girl/woman to smoke? Lol oh your one of those "its a dirty nasty habit" people, fascinating. Hurting my reproductive system? Lol I already know I cant have kids and that had nothing to do with smoking. And in the off chance I do end up "being one of those old woman that you see walking down the street crouched over pushing an oxygen tank with an oxygen mask plastered on your face" Id still be able to take my hand of the oxygen tank long enough to give you the middle finger.
You fail at life
It's part of the self-destructive nature of the characters??
Why don't you ask why there's so much drinking going on? There's more of that. And, if you're sooooo concerned about your lungs, you should be ranting about automobiles or the tons and tons of crap pumped into the air every day from industry. Those are going to kill you waaay before cigarette smoke, 'cuz you can't make them go outside, 25 ft. from the entrance. You've been indoctrinated well, grasshopper, by the anti smoking zealots.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
I laughed my ass off at this comment. It was so perfect, even the OP had to play along in his reply!