Thank you celivia for your reply..

Yes , it is very perplexing why cigerettes havent been banned by the goverment up to this point, and Id rather thought it was because of the massive amounts of revenue raised by tobacco sales.

That said it is well known that a good deal of the health dollar goes toward the burden placed on it by tobacco related disease.

It is obvious then that sales far outweigh costs incurred to the health system.

Cigerette smoking in films I agree is a concern but I think if children have sound parental guidelines and indeed have sound parental guidance by way of example, then we need not worry too much.

I dont smoke and none of my children smoke..and I do have adult children, one did ,she gave up.

But I think the assertion that if cinema were too sanitised, I for one would lose interest.And we cant shelter our children away from the realities of the world they live in on a daily basis..too many contradictions..