{"id":2954,"date":"2015-02-21T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2015-02-21T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:26:51","slug":"what-the-eff-liam-neeson-starring-in-a-cigarette-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"What the hell? — Liam Neeson starring in a cigarette commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preview for “Run One Night” — being shown on television<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This blew me away.<\/p>\n

A new movie is coming out in March called “Run All Night.” It looks like yet another cookie-cutter Liam Neeson “I have a particular set of skills” hitman violent thriller (Seriously, are these the only movies Liam Neeson is going to make from now on?).<\/p>\n

It’s rated R, has plenty of gunplay, I’m sure plenty of violence and bad language, so I really don’t care if there’s smoking in the movie. But, in the trailer for the movie, being shown regularly right now, it has Liam Neeson prominently featured with a cigarette in his mouth.<\/p>\n

What the eff, Warner Brothers? Seriously? It seems like it could have been pretty easy to exclude the “hey, smoking makes you a tough guy bad ass” cigarette commercial from the preview showing repeatedly on regular television … when lots of kids will see how cool Liam Neeson looks with a gun and a cigarette.<\/p>\n

I get that it’s an R-rated movie (gratuitous smoking is only supposed to be allowed in R-rated movies now), but regular television programming is not R-rated. When they took the smoking out of PG and PG-13 movies, they also need to make sure to take the smoking out of the previews being shown on TV.<\/p>\n

I know it may seem petty to some people, but this really ticked me off. It was a long, bruising and at times exasperating battle to get smoking out of Hollywood movies marketed to kids, and apparently we’re still fighting this battle. You’re not going to show the F-bombs and blood splatters on television previews — cut out the cigarettes, too.<\/p>\n