# smoking on scree and TV- paid for?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-on-scree-and-tv-paid-for/749088>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 15, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-on-scree-and-tv-paid-for/749088 "2016-03-15T17:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-on-scree-and-tv-paid-for/749088/21 "2016-03-16T19:20:24Z")

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Occam’s Razor: Movies show smoking because it gives them something to do with their hands while saying their lines. It makes the scene more visual instead of just talking heads.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-on-scree-and-tv-paid-for/749088/22 "2016-03-16T20:56:37Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> About 15% of American smoke.
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> 46% of PG13 movies show smoking.

If I go for a 2 hour walk around town, 100% of reality shows smoking.

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-on-scree-and-tv-paid-for/749088/23 "2016-03-17T00:35:22Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> It is interesting that many posters seem to trust Big Tobacco, the people known for lying over and over and over.

To me, I don’t know that its a matter of trust. And as for the lying over and over part — I still vote, after all. The best we can do is filter what we hear and see through our own personal “truth-o-meter” and move along. If someone wants to blame Big Tobacco, Big Oil, or President Obama for everything its no skin off my nose; I just see things differently.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-on-scree-and-tv-paid-for/749088/24 "2016-05-25T16:02:19Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> I think\* all\* depictions of smoking are paid for.
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> It is interesting that many posters seem to trust Big Tobacco, the people known for lying over and over and over.

you ‘think’ is not the same as ‘here is evidence that it actually happened’.

I don’t trust them - I wouldn’t put it past them - but I also have no evidence it happened, so I don’t convict them based on what you (or I, for that matter) may ‘think’ happened.

If, they are in fact breaking the law in,and paying for, this placement - provide the eviden to the people that can actually hurt them - prancing around on a message board with baseless accusations is not going to change anything.

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