Does anyone hate how you never see smoking in movies anymore?

I watch a lot of film noir movies and am a fan, and the smoking really adds to a the crime genre atmosphere. But you never see it anymore. Yes I know people do not do it as much nowadays but they still do more in real life, compared to movies, but it would still add to it in my opinion. What do you think?

It’s funny that you bring this up because I was just thinking about this very thing last night. I may have to take a closer look at recent film to get a better idea of whether or not it’s jus tony imagination or not.
I’m not bothered by it.

The last movie I have seen that feels like it has a good amount was The Departed (2006). But has smoking really gone down a whole lot since 2006?

Eh, not really. It's funny how the rating system has changed in regards to smoking, though. For a few years now, it's been in place that a film has to automatically take a PG rating if someone smokes. It's even in the rating description for When Marnie Was There.

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Smoking in films seems to have made somewhat of a resurgence. And it's true that smoking can be used in many ways to enhance dramatic effects.

There was a time --when anti-smoking was first fashionably popular-- that smoking was limited to non-existent in movies. It used to bug me during that time that movies set in the 1930s-'50s oftentimes were shown with nobody smoking, whereas probably half the population smoked then..

I personally couldn't care less.

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I don't hate it, but I definitely notice it and the contrast between contemporary films and films in the 40's and 50's where EVERYONE smoked. Maybe filmmakers feel guilt about promoting a definite health hazard, I don't know. But it doesn't change the fact that there are still a whole lot of people out there, myself included, who smoke and erasing it from the movies isn't going to change that.

Joker probably made your day or will make your day depending on if you've seen it lol

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It seems to me that newer movies made this century have more smoking in them than those of the 80s and 90s. But if you want more smoking in a movie just set your TV set on fire

I'd guess there's more pot-smoking than cigarette smoking.

My cravings hit me hard when I see people smoking on screen, so big fat no from me.

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New generation, I am yet to see vaping in movies. As far as smoking goes, I don't care. Show it or not show it. Smoked for 18 years, trying to get to 0.

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You can always tell a non-smoker who has to smoke in a movie. The non-smoker will take a drag on the cigarette like every second. A real smoker doesn’t do this.

I don’t care if actors smoke or don’t smoke in a movie. Neutral both ways.

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The Indian movie industry a few years ago tried to smoking in movies absolutely banned. Which was a bit extreme. It got a push back from the movie makers, so now every time someone smokes on screen, there is a disclaimer that shows up on the bottom left or right, "SMOKING KILLS"!!!

Oh really, I see movies where the actor holds the cigarette and that's all they do, so I thought this was the sign of a non-smoker.

A real smoker takes a big ole drag and ghosts that ****.

That too, most likely.