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News > The MPAA caves; smoking will affect a movie's rating

After vehement campaigning for a few years from health groups and celebrities like Rob Reiner, the MPAA has decided to listen to its critics and take cigarette smoking in a movie into consideration when it dishes out its ratings, reports Variety.

Says the MPAA: '"In the past, illegal teen smoking has been a factor in the rating of films, alongside other parental concerns such as sex, violence and adult language. Now, all smoking will be considered and depictions that glamorize smoking or movies that feature pervasive smoking outside of an historic or other mitigating context may receive a higher rating."'

I'm torn on this issue. It's pretty weak there's more censorship now, but cigarette smoking is pretty unnecessary. It's hard to defend such a stupid act. And smoking sometimes is needed for the realism of a scene but…usually those movies are PG-13 or R anyways. There's no need for a Disney film to have smoking in it.