{"id":3005,"date":"2015-03-14T21:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T21:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2015-03-14T21:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T21:38:37","slug":"holy-wolverine-no-more-smoking-in-marvel-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"Holy Wolverine! No more smoking in Marvel movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disney CEO Bob Iger announced last week<\/a>\u00a0that there will be no more smoking period in any film distributed by any Disney-affiliated studio<\/a> rated PG-13 or lower from now on (Not sure Disney still makes R-rated movies, the studio did for a while through Touchstone.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extending our policy to prohibit smoking in movies across the board: Marvel, Lucas, Pixar, and Disney films,\u201d said Iger.<\/p>\n

I was already kind of aware that Disney had clamped down on smoking in its movies (Disney cartoons have a long history of portaying smoking to young audiences). However, here was the part of the story that struck me —\u00a0Marvel movies include the X-Men\u00a0(The Marvel mega-brand was purchased by Disney a few years ago.)<\/p>\n

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So, does that mean no more smoking for Wolverine from the X-Men? Wow, a cigar is a really big part of Wolverine’s persona. We’ll have to see if they follow through with that.<\/p>\n

Other Marvel characters often seen chomping a cigar: Ben Grimm, Nick Fury and Sgt. Dugan from Captain America. I’m not sure if Nick Fury has been smoking in the recent Marvel movies. But, it’s a moot point now if he had been.<\/p>\n

This also means you will not see any\u00a0smoking in any “Stars Wars” movies, though off-hand, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen smoking in any “Star Wars” film. Did Obi-Wan smoke a pipe sometimes?<\/p>\n

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Nick Fury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As it stands, very little (if any) smoking gets sneaked through the PG-13 rating today anyway. I believe what has happened is studios just don’t want to butt heads with the MPAA over smoking in PG-13 movies and have more or less voluntarily removed smoking from teen and kids’ movies. Smoking is still pretty much shrugged off in R-rated movies, which is fine.<\/p>\n

However, Iger said smoking could still be allowed in some movies in a historical context. For instance, in a movie about Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln could be portrayed smoking his pipe.<\/p>\n

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Sgt. Dugan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Of course, Disney will not be going back and wiping out smoking from all of its old movies, and I’m not one to advocate going that far.<\/p>\n

BTW, I just HAD to find the cartoon that went along with that Goofy image. Here it is.<\/p>\n