Health experts want R rating for movies that show smoking
If filmmakers won't stop showing characters in PG-13 movies smoking, then movies depicting smoking or tobacco use should be rated "R." That's the demand being made health experts, who are frustrated by the failure of efforts to eliminate smoking imagery from movies targeted toward young people. Research has shown that smoking in movies has a direct impact on children who go on to smoke.
Spurred on by a recent recent report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing little progress in reducing smoking imagery in PG-13 movies, a coalition of seventeen public health and medical groups have signed a letter to film industry leaders demanding that the film industry stop depicting tobacco in youth -rated movies by June 1, 2018 - or change the rating.