RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Anti-Smoking Pressure Group Takes Aim At Wolverine

Let’s pause for a second and reflect on that—The American Medical Association Alliance are asking the MPAA to take the position that smoking is a more insidious act than rape or terrorism. This may seem like I’m extrapolating, but my logic—based on the demands put forth by the AMAA, is sound.

To their credit, the MPAA is discounting the AMAA’s demands out of hand and saying that a “zero-tolerance” policy regarding smoking in the movies “would not be accepted.” I liken this to George W. Bush’s “no litmus test” policy for his Supreme Court justices—the logic being, how can you possibly hope to make an informed decision as to the relative merits of an individual or a film if one factor is weighed so heavily against all the others?

Aside from the fact that hard-and-fast rules like this flirt with the boundaries of being flat-out illegal (that pesky First Amendment’s always ruining the fun, isn’t it?), they eventually suffocate on their own stupidity. The fact that the AMAA’s primary argument seems to revolve around the fact that Wolverine had a cigar in a few sequences of this summer’s hit X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is kind of ironic given that superheroes have combated this sort of myopic censorship before. In 1970’s The Amazing Spider-Man #96-98, Stan Lee and Marvel stood up to the Comics Code Authority, whose rules prohibited any depiction of illegal drug use, regardless of context.

It's also ironic because Marvel pussied out a long time ago and had Wolvie quit smoking.

Next, the AMAA will try to get TV Land to stop airing reruns of the A-Team, 'cause Hannibal had a cigar in his mouth in every scene! Madness!

i hate seeing him smoke as he gores people to horrific deaths with his claws made of an indestructible metal. what if kids see him smoking!??

The retardation of America continues.

He's more of a tard than snarf and wants to remind us why.