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AN ANTI-SMOKING ORGANISATION has criticised Netflix for the amount of smoking in its programmes.
Truth Initiative, a US public health organisation, released research which claims that Netflix original programmes have more than twice as many smoking scenes compared to its rivals.
The research looked at the 14 most popular shows with viewers aged 15-24 across broadband and cable providers. It found that 79% of the shows depict smoking prominently, with nearly 500 depictions of tobacco.
The worst offender was Stranger Things with 182 scenes with cigarettes. It was followed by The Walking Dead (94) – which is an AMC programme.
However the next two in line were also Netflix programmes – Orange is the New Black (45) and House of Cards (41).
Netflix original Fuller House had 22 tobacco incidents and the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer had 20. Overall, Netflix shows had 319 scenes with an implied use of a tobacco product.
Robin Koval, CEO and president of Truth Initiative said, “This report serves as both a wake-up call and an opportunity for the streaming and television industries to understand the damage smoking imagery causes and do something about it.”
A Netflix spokesman told Variety magazine, “While streaming entertainment is more popular than ever, we’re glad that smoking is not”.
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Oh dear!
It’s set in the eighties when everyone smoked. Part of stranger things appeal was how spot on it portrayed that period.
Should we get rid of the chapters on slavery from the history books too because it’s not PC by today’s standards?
Let’s start a campaign to remove smoking from all movies. Start with a re edit of Casablanca!
Then any other icons that don’t agree with our 21st century ideals can be systematically destroyed. Just like those Isis lads did in the Middle East.
@john doe: this has been done already ! many old movies have had smoking cut out
@john doe: They’ve already airbrushed cigars from pictures of Brunel in kids’ books.
Here’s a famous image:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/44/107182355_080ec2fb6a.jpg
And now spot the difference!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bw83dQyCEAAIrhi.jpg
@harry
I don’t know what kids book it was. But how are youth expected to learn from history if we whitewash it??
@john doe: I’m offended by the term whitewash.
@Harry Whitehead: why has he got his hands down his trousers?
May all snowflakes’ problems be small ones!
@Peter Cavey: they are advertisements Peter. Tobacco companies pay for smoking in tv shows.
@Carlin Ite: No they don’t.
@Carlin Ite: Yep,, and the “NRA” sponsors the Punisher………
@neilo: thanks for the feedback “Neil”. as an FYI.. have the balls to have a profile when you feel the need to comment on everything on the journal.ie but then again, if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck….
What about the murders
@Benjamin Dolan:
As an anti-smoking organization they probably have a vested interest in highlighting things that could be seen to promote smoking
@Nick Allen: and themselves.
@Benjamin Dolan: dont mention the guns or the NRA and America will lose its shit again !!
This article really makes me want a cigarette.
@tae: Did you see the state of the people smoking ? It would turn you right off forever. Is more of an anti smoking effect because who in their right minds wants to look like any of them.
@Catherine Sims: Claire Underwood is hot as hell
Who in their right mind notices this kind of stuff
@Dublin Gooner: Saddos who want to spout their zealotry unto all others, that’s who. #tobaccotaliban
@Dublin Gooner: The people who understand how subliminal suggestion works!
Bridge – Build – Get Over.
I got very triggered over the smoking scenes, I have PTSD now, I also believe the smoking scenes are oppressing me.
Haven’t we had enough of snowflakes for this month?
Someone never included Peaky Blinders obviously !!!
Oh for gods sake if you do not like seeing people smoking turn off the programs . Pack of babies !
Stop offending the easily offended!!!!
Imagine sitting down and counting how many scenes had cigarettes. Get a life
Expect them to start vaping in narcos
In other news, people in TV programmes only go to the bathroom to look in the mirror or get murdered, or get murdered while they’re looking in the mirror.
Some people need to get a life
Will the pc brigade ever f#*k off
@Sean O Sullivan: The PC strawman wearily makes another appearance on the Journal
There goes all the old bond movies
@Tommy Sea: and the ads with Ronnie Reagan handing out cartons of Chesterfield smokes at Christmas
hopefully when the all the snow melts these snowflakes will go away also…
Bleedin snowflake with nothing else of any importance in their tragic lives
Well there are far more films and shows showing people drinking alcohol. No uproar there. I don’t know about anyone else but actors doing makey uppy stuff in pictures doesn’t really incite me to do anything. Drink smoke murder rob become queen or an FBI agent or try to escape the matrix. Be grand lads honest.
Well history begins to scupoer. Will we deny we ever smoked.
What obsessive rubbish. Is everyone who watched Finding Nemo now obsessed with scuba diving and unable to live on land?
Seriously, how many obsessive censors does the world need?
Suppose all drug taking will be next too ..
I refute this objection in many ways. I thought credible TV / Radio / whatever medium, was meant to reflect actual real life. Is that not the case? I feel it’s the same ‘pro-life’ brigade. Let’s call all of this what it is: anti-choice
@Martin Quinlan: yeah this is nothing to do with the pro life brigade as you call it. Stop trying to make ridiculous connections to suit your own stupid agenda.
@Catherine Sims: the same kind of mis-guided people draw the same kind of mis-guided conclusions. The comparison is easy. But in the context of ‘smoking on Tele’. Best ban it in real life in case a kid sees it. Unfortunately, too much tax revenue.
@Martin Quinlan: The same kind of people use every tenious opportunity they can to further their own BS agenda. There you go fixed that for you.
@Catherine Sims: also, everything is connected. Have you not lived a life up until now?
@Martin Quinlan: Crazy man….. Sounds like acid trip logic
@Catherine Sims: do you have any? Nice deflection though. The pure sign of an imbecile. Please crawl back under that rock.
Who cares? They can have people smoke, drink, pop, snort or inject anything they want in movies, TV shows, video games, music videos, whatever it is all they want, that doesn’t mean everyone who sees them has to do it themselves if they don’t want to so get over it. Netflix should tell anyone & everyone who complains to go & $hite.
Honestly have people got anything better yo be doing. How miserable a persons life must be that they can’t watch/enjoy a fictional tv show without having to count the number of scenes where people are smoking. If it bothers you that much, how about watch something else?
What about HBO ‘The Leftovers’ Has to be most smoking ever!
@Conor Power: __ That was smoke and mirrors.
Why???
this is getting way over the Top I started smoking not because I saw on tv or any other media..
it was my own stupidity education is key and as a smoker Ban it but wait the tax intake for the government won’t allow it.
OH FFS GET REAL!!!
if people want to smoke they’ll smoke regardless of what they see on Netflix.
If this kind of crap keeps up we’re all going to end up in equilibrium!!!
@Craig Clancy: great movie but it’s becoming frighteningly real
I would’ve thought Mindhunter would be second. Bill smokes like a chimney.
I hope Netflix tells this organisation to f**k off and make their own programmes, which they are free to make smoke free.
@Frank Martin: Just give it time and being offended will be offensive to the easily offended. Smoke’em if ya got’em!
A lot of moaning here about the PC brigade, with plenty of sniping about snowflakes. Obviously lung cancer is nothing to get upset about, so apologies for upsetting you guys…
@David Knight: Jesus David you must be heavily influenced by certain things. So somebody sees someone smoking on the tv and goes ok that’s it I’m starting smoking? Get a grip man. Bloody hell don’t watch broke back mountain if that’s the case….
@Warren Collier: You are right of course, what’s there to worry about? It’s obvious that no-one was ever influenced by anything that was on TV.
F#*k off world.
I hear season 3 of Stranger Things is going to have scenes with demogorgons puffing fags
@Quiet Goer: No I hear in the upside down the cigarettes will be smoking people .
Oh ffs! To all you little delicate pc snowflakes, dont watch peaky blinders if thats the case. You’ll most likely die from passive smoke inhalation coming out of the tele.
Dont know how Mindhunter didn’t make the list.
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