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Depictions of tobacco in the most popular TV shows among young people surged nearly fourfold in the past year — and Netflix’s “Stranger Things” season 2 was the worst offender, according to a new report from anti-smoking group Truth Initiative. In response, Netflix said that going forward, all new shows it commissions with ratings of [...]J.A. Bayona has signed on to direct two episodes of Amazon’s upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series.
Lame
Cowardice. Leftist fascists must be ignored or they will never stop.
Tench better be chain smoking in the new season of Mindhunter.
Now, if they’d just do the same with guns.
This*
So, we are ok with watching violence, guns and murder... but not a person smoking🤷🏻♀️
So stupid - smoke - don't smoke - no one cares
But how will we know if the divorced alcoholic detective is someone who really doesn't give a goddamn?
Right. Clean up the history of mankind so it's pristine.
They can't do the same with the sex scenes or their homosexual shit?
Really lol.... Well, Just wait until all the Anti Murder groups come a knocking.
Smoking on screen is a bad influence to kids... Let's show them suicide, sex scenes, and lots of killing. Because that shit is okay.
Say hello to VidAngel....
The reasons to hate everyone are really starting to pile up 🗃
Fucking hell its historical like Mad Men. People smoked their heads off in the 1980s too.
Now do suicide
Kids won't take up smoking cos of TV shows, they'll start cos of the constant stress that current society throws at them. If I was a kid now living in this shitty world, I'd be a smoker, gambler and an alcoholic, just to relax
People smoked like chimneys back then. Don’t give in to these whiny babies
Gay
BRUH it’s a period piece smdh
Who gives a shit what some “group” whines about?
Ban everything!
Washing history, step 1.
Sure, rewrite history so nobody complains. Awesome plan. 🙄
Yeah let's rewrite period pieces because people dont like things. Ffs, people smoked everywhere in the 80s, I still find it strange that bars and bowling alleys dont reek of it. Stop trying to rewrite things netflix
But the aliens are realistic
Netflix has millions of viewers; why does it kowtow to the four members of Truth Initiative?
This some sensitive/weak white people BULLSHIT netflix
Dear lord...
Removing things from history again. You know, I usually use things like smoking in restaurants in the 80's and 90's as a tool to teach my daughters how far we have come. Hiding history is dumb
Just replace the cigarettes with joints and call it a day.
Great decision!!!
This is why astroids need to hit earth when i was a kid our parents smoked in a car with Windows rolled up idontsmokecigs we make our own choices a TV show isn't going to make you smoke if you see it stupidpeople Arestupid we didn't have car seats either lol 😂
Far left twats at it again
Holy fuck this is dumb, how about we cut back on groups that blast things that don't matter
Netflix sucks! I have to wade thorough all the anti American BS and Mexican shows!
What is this group? Where?
That's stupid. It's the 1980s in a blue collar town on a show that is trying to depict the era accurately.
Yeah hey! Nobody smoked in the eighties! They were all snorting coke! I’ve seen Scarface.
Fuck that. That girls brothers exaggerated smoking style while listening to hair metal bands was hilarious to watch.
yeah, people smoked in the 80's. a lot.
They gonna remove guns from films next?
Literally the stupidest thing I’ve read today. And I mean on twitter
But smoking weed is great.
Finally good job eliminate it period next!!
Oh man, I for one am glad. I shudder to imagine smoking being depicted in my next season of Narcos. Thank you netflix - also I would appreciate it it if in the next sword and sandals epic all soldiers fight with poodle noodles. Don't want those pesky 'sword' groups getting mad
Why? Smoking was everywhere in the 1980s...my parents smoked walking around the grocery store! Hollywood is so ridiculous - you want to accurately depict the setting, but God forbid you should show something that isn't in vogue now? WTF?
In the remake of Stalag 17 the maguffin will be a time bomb made out of sharpened spoons.
Like adamcarolla says...”the NRA figured it out...they say “I will not give up my extended magazine” b/c they know what happens next”
Ffs
smoking on film is a part of characterization. In this case, the police chief, the way he smokes and how much he smokes tells you A LOT about him. It adds to his character and is a big part of it. It's a shame people can't handle it. For all intents and purposes. Art is dead
For f%cks sake.. I don't smoke but damn.. everybody smoked back then.. kids addicted to vape but no one Vapes in shows or movies.. We have no real problems so we invent them..
Any Civil War era productions gonna cut back on the whole 'slave' thing?
Working hard AF to sanitize the past. What could go wrong?
Thank god. I saw them smoking on that show and I went out and bought a carton for myself and my family. Now I'm hopelessly addicted and I have lung cancer please help.
This is ridiculous.
Watching Breaking Bad made me start smoking meth. - said no one, ever
Te hablan, quieren entrar a tu lista. Bvlxp
This shit is ridiculous
Is this real life? Who cares if someone is depicted smoking? It's a TV show set in the 80s. Grfoh these sensitive asses need to stop.
Netflix just pledged to reduce revenues with this decision. Idiots.
Don’t worry about historical accuracy. Screw that shit.
Because no one smoked in the 1980s. 😂
I pledged to cut back in the early nineties and it took me years. Giving up smoking is hard dude.
Ummm are guns in movies next? Leathered goods? Sugars? Animals? Children? No wait... let’s just STOP making film that reflects LIFE as it is... and ONLY the way you wish it to be.
But that was the thing to do then.
How about fuck the group cause that shit was accurate for the time period.
The show takes place in the 80′s, before anti-smoking jihad
I doubt there are kids who actually see that and think they should try it nowadays.
My high school had an outdoor smoking section for STUDENTS
Maybe Amazon should cut back on the nazis in “The Man in the High Castle.”
Child pornography is AOK, though. (Child pornography is as far from AOK as one can get).
It’s set in the 80s? Get a grip
Ridiculous. I hate smoking, but when a show/film is set in an era when smoking was as normal as breathing, it's stupid to ignore it. Netflix needs to tell the group to piss off.
Netflix is stupid
This is set in the 80’s right?
Oh my gaaaawwd STOP. Both Hopper and Winona’s character would have smoked like fiends. Part of who they are. It WAS the 80s
I hate smoking, I think it’s disgusting. But this is just stupid lmao.
Good! Too much smoking and tobacco usage has made its way back into television and network advertising. This needs to stop!
Obesity can cause liver cancer Obesity can cause bowel cancer Obesity can cause ovarian cancer Obesity can cause kidney cancers Shall we stop showing food on TV?
What's next... no one eating meat, no one eating dairy, no one using plastic, no one laughing at someone else, no one drinking alcohol etc.... What's next... crap TV People need to grow up and take responsibility. timeforadrink🥃
cancelhistory
People just have to much fucking time on their hands.......
‘Group upset that hopper looks cool AF with a cigarette and they can’t deal’
Do people have nothing better to do other than complain about smoking portrayals in an ‘80s set tv show?
America has become soft
netflix is probably my next subscription to get the boot. So full of SJW BS in their original content and caving to shit like this. Who’s the marketing “genius” that thinks pandering to half, and annoying the rest, of the country is smart?
People are so anti-smoking, yet when it comes to proven cancer chemicals/ dyes in junk food, most people stay silent. Kids die of cancer and it’s dismissed as just part of life, meanwhile they push mass poisons onto them. The poison food kills far more than smoking. Hypocrites.
Yeah, it's not like they'd want to make it 80s believable or anything. This is dumb.
y’all sensitive as fuck
Absolute clownshow
Abhishek96823 is RickandMorty next?
Who cares. It’s literally acting. If kids are getting influenced then better stop with all the violence and other shit fuck off. How about people take responsibility for themselves. If you smoke because you saw a character do it then who cares? Figure it out that’s life
yippee ki yay motherfucker!
It was the 80s guys. They had ashtrays bolted to arcade games. 🙏
Right. Because they are so concerned and all. Which is why they are producing a prank show on people looking for work. 🙄
Stupid
Stupid.
All yall soft
...but it was the 80’s 🙄
Um. It’s based in the 80s My mom regularly bought HER mom cigarettes. She started smoking before 13 (which would’ve been ‘83). It was a normal part of life in that time and removing it would make the lack glaringly obvious.
TomaselliJustin clearly these guys haven’t been watching Thomas fookin Shelby
It was so much nicer when Netflix was just about sponsoring projects to make popular content. They created some great properties via experimentation - Stranger Things itself released with ZERO fanfare or marketing as an experiment!
I really hate it when companies start getting a 'personality' and enforcing it as gatekeepers on people via their monopoly. Apple is doing the same thing, trying to force its family-oriented ned flanders lifestyle via its upcoming network. It's cultural censorship.
wow I'm amazed at the number of people who are defending characters smoking like it makes any real different if they smoke or not, so why not just get rid of it?
If I don't see actors nicking out from cartoonishly massive vape hits when they portray 2010's people I'm gonna start smoking cigarettes.
Give me a freaking break.
Netflix idiots
Breaking Bad made me smoke meth
Porn and violence peddlers worry about the message of smoking on the movies. Mkay.
but its such a strong way to show character. smoking is a REAL thing, so obviously it helps the realism of a character that has the additude of a smoker
People are stupid and dumb for this
Keef finds all this amusing
In the good ol' days, everyone in movies and TV smoked. Then just the bad guys. Now no one. Shame.
Are you fuckin serious. This was the 80s. I’m surprised they didn’t put more blow on the screen 🙄
Yeah, Why be accurate when doing period pieces? Add in modern social justice terms too!
netflix and Stranger_Things had to be better than this come on. Acting is an art.
I guess realistic depictions of reality isn’t quite so important. I know kids saw that smoking scene and were like, let’s get some smokes!
Here’s a thought tell that group to f*** off! easypeasy
People smoked more in the 1980’s than now....it’s acting.
I get it.
Stop pandering to crybabies. They suck the life out of you because they have no lives of their own. Best to tell them to shove it and just make your movie.
The same DA voters in CA who put a huge tax on cigarettes I bet. Not only did it not help, it created a huge black market & more criminals. 🤦🏽♀️
Oh please! Enough!!!
People really need to be told to fuck off more. Like a lot more.
I didn't even realize...
🤦🏻♂️
LOL now there's a study about second hand drinking. Slippery slope everyone.
Wow! Revisioninsm.
Nerds.
netflix good job idiots.
Screw this group.
Delete history. Delete delete delete. Never happened.
Are people this sensitive now? My god
Wow.... you think if we form a group and blast stranger things for not smoking enough they will change back. safeplace gtfo
But abortion, sex and gay are just fine
People need to just get the fuck over things
It’s a fucking show. A poltergeist kills a person. Will they stop doing shows about paranormal stuff?
After Russian Doll I actually wondered if Netflix was taking side money from Philip Morris.
Who cares if a group 'blasts it'? There are groups 'blasting' your decision. Do what is necessary to make QUALITY programs and ignore the naysayers.
Uh, people smoked in the 80s. It's ok to depict that in movies and TV shows.
Dear God, this society is chock full of pussies. People happened to smoke more back in the 80's, but we're supposed to pretend that didn't happen now I guess.
People are triggered by cigs now? The end of good TV is near 😩😩😩
When will companies learn that you never give in to demands and you never apologize. It's never enough, and when you do it the first time, it's just an incentive for even more ridiculous outrage.
Stop 👏 complaining 👏 and get👏 a 👏 life👏!
When I was a kid when we would go into restaurants they would always ask “smoking or non-smoking” same with hotel rooms. I was born long after the time depicted in stranger things.
Yeah, because nobody smoked in the 80s
Lmao. Censoring movies and tv shows for accurately depicting how many people actually used to smoke, unreal
I remember having tea & smoking cigs during MBA 1st year exams in ‘91, that too India. I don’t recall how well I did but the exams were an experience!! I support the ban on smoking in public places, but Netflix? They should rather consider cutting back on blood & killings.
We had the 'Bronze Age' the 'Golden Age' the 'Atomic Age' I guess this is the 'Pussy Age' (y)
Yet they took over Designated Survivor and it now depicts gay sex scenes and more vulgar language that I’ve heard in r rated movies. 🙄
Showing smoking? What’s next? A movie that makes 5 people who raped a woman in Central Park look like victims
Smoking bad, but gay sex scenes... damn we gotta have one in every show!
So now Harold doesn’t smoke
who says Millenials can’t get jobs ?! all the PC bullshit decisions being made these days by billion dollar companies cannot possible be made by any other generation! you telling me a Boomer or GenX cancelled Nike new shoe .that has PC millennial all over it! and now this? c’mon!
Boooo
But muh realism!
It's like the biggest objection these people have is that they'd have to talk to their children and who wants to do that? Well you should since you're responsible for them as a parent.
More whitewashing history it seems. Cant even have accuracy in shows anymore 'well kids might see it and think about smoking' so you have a conversation with your kids about how A)people fake smoke on TV and b)just cause someone else does doesn't mean you have too.
its was the 80s that's what they did. You people are silly.
What Fing Group? Bc that group doesn’t speak for the majority of people that watch your shows.
A group? Of snowflakes?
Its like their getting cancer from watching the smoke on screen. 🙄🙄
But they promise to up the weed smoking.
Oh something else people are offended about? What a sane world we live in.
Smoking is cool.
“Group.”
Social justice warriors really do destroy everything they touch. They want to rewrite history and they are doing it.
😐😐😐
That's like cutting back on horses and whisky in westerns. Stupid PoliticalCorrectness
I personally am for this. When can we have a version of Wolf of Wallstreet that me and Ma can watch while reading our sermons? G D liberals...
Group blast campaigns should be ignored.
Fuck outrage culture and everyone that is a part of it. I hope something outrageous happens to you so you can stop ruining everyone else’s fun.
What a bunch of pud pulling sissies.
But those candy-cigarettes are addicting!
netflix Yall suck
It takes place in the fucking 80s.. it’s called immersion
Wait till you see all the cocaine use on Netflix
Shouldn't Netflix focus on having shows last longer than 3 seasons instead?
Netflix sees no problem with endless, raunchy sex scenes in their shows (do the producers think normal people have nearly constant sex? Or that viewers want to watch it?) Dirty jokes abound, even in shows for younger audiences. Yet smoking is something to clutch pearls about.
But you'll go ahead and promote originals romanticizing teen suicide
'Netflix pledges to pander to sensitive babies from now on.' Sadly, it's not the headline done by TheOnion 🙃🙃🤡
The left ruining everything and the people who run the companies give in to a few people on Twitter and other platforms.
wow we love censorship
How about no cocaine in Narcos? Or no shootings in.... You know what? Continue in this PC madness.
We had a smoking section in our high school in the 80's and people still smoked in restaurants and on airplanes. It wouldn't be authentic without smoking.
I gather this is a show aimed at teens, who are still entrenched in the monkey-see-monkey-do phase of intellectual development, and can not be trusted to make good life choices. This is why Democrats want to lower the voting age.
Seriously netflix? You buckle over every little thing the internet whines about. Stop playing into the emotions of a small group of people who have nothing better to do than complain on the internet about the use of FAKE cigarettes in a FICTIONAL show.
Will not show smoking, yet releases 'The Dirt' which is essentially an NC-17 movie. I dont understand.
Smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants were separated by a HALF WALL in the 80’s
To be fair, I usually don’t mind it in movies and shows, but there’s a bit too much of it in Stranger Things, particularly with Joyce Byers. I can’t stand smokers in real life, because the smoke permeates through all of their clothing. It’s a stench that no one likes.
the only verbs printed these days are blast and slammed
I hate people
Authentic depictions is so yesterday
How about loosing the foul language while their at it.
What a terrible time to be alive. Everybody whining whining whining about everything.
Great, don’t even stop there. Cut out narcotics from Narcos too.
Stay woke Netflix
Watching Stranger Things turned me into an addict 🙄
Oh good grief netflix grow a set
Our society is doomed....
Wow this is dumb.
Bold and brave
This is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve heard in a while.
Stop the mindfucking please.
Lmfaooooooooooooo this hellacious place the Left has built
Fuck you, Netflix. Smoking is sexy.
Everyone is triggered these days. 🙄
What's next? Cut down on the discrimination in a movie taking place around the time of MLK? That defeats the purpose.
This is just silly
Cigarettes offend me
When making a movie or show period specific it's apparently not important to try and be accurate to that period.
Stupid
That's gay. I hate smoking but that's absurd. How about cutting back on progressive propaganda, instead?
This is why you dont re-write history... people forget how things actually were in favor of the bullshit modern PC agenda...
I want to live in a country without hurting people feelings every 3.4 seconds
What 'group' doesn't understand what a period piece is?
Weak move.
Why? Who cares?
So weak bruh
Fuck it we all smoke anyways 🤣
Just do not pay for netflix
We live in world where people cry like babies about the dumbest shit even if it's historically accurate. What's next editing Narcos and not showing tons of people doing cocaine even though a shit ton of people were doing it because drugs are bad mkay?
This is stupid so what next ban anything depicting violence during the French Revolution. Ignore the use of a guillotine. 🤔
This could just be a coincidence but I’ve seen so many people start smoking in public again in my town within the last year after thinking it was almost extinct for many years. It’s making a comeback.
Why just ‘Stranger Things’?🤔
Stranger Things it makes sense as an 80s depiction. Russian Doll- many characters were smoking cigarettes & indoors no less. I haven’t seen someone smoke a cigarette indoors at a party since 1996! Pot yes, cigarettes no. Plus it’s a continuity nightmare and largely unnecessary.
I'm offended by the horrible Adam Sandler Netflix Original movies. Will they cut back on those?
Lmao what cowards
yes, because people didn't smoke in the 80s....
They should do no such thing. Don’t like it? Don’t watch it. Also, it’s a period show. That’s what went on. Get the hell over it!
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