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Films With Smoking Will Get 'R' Rating

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In a rare alternation of its movie ratings system, the MPAA ( = Motion Picture Association of America) said on Thursday that the panel that assesses Hollywood movies will begin considering "depictions that glamorize smoking or movies that features pervasive smoking outside of a historic or other mitigating context." Until now the subjects that movie raters have primarily considered are violence, language, nudity, & drugs.


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