{"id":4268,"date":"2019-08-23T19:51:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2020-05-14T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:43:01","slug":"netflix-to-cut-smoking-even-on-bojack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"Netflix to cut smoking — even on ‘Bojack’?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An oblivious Bojack blows smoke in little Sarah Lynn’s face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Netflix announced this week<\/a> that it’s cutting smoking in some of its shows.<\/p>\n

One of the shows that has taken a lot of heat for portaying a hell of a lot of smoking is Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” The sheriff in that show is constantly smoking and Stranger Things has been specifically targeted by anti-tobacco advocates.<\/p>\n

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Personally, I’ve sure noticed that Netflix’s Bojack Horseman has a lot of smoking, but then again, it’s a show about an alcoholic, self-destructive, pill-popping, clinically depressed horse, so smoking kind of fits right in with his character. Bojack even smokes as a child after seeing Secretariat smoke on TV. His abusive mother catches him and forces him to smoke the entire cigarette just to show him that she hates him.<\/p>\n

Bojack recalls this terrible memory of his mother’s cruelty as he’s smoking a cigarette … which he clearly isn’t enjoying.<\/p>\n

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Baby Bojack smoking his first cigarette after seeing Secretariat smoking on TV.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s a scene in another show where Bojack is blowing smoke right in a little girl’s face and making her cough, but he’s such a narcissist he doesn’t even notice. The scene takes place from the 1990s, when some people were still buttheads about smoking around kids.<\/p>\n

Another interesting sidenote about Bojack Horseman. His mother smoked constantly in the show and in the end, she dies of Alzheimer’s. I wonder if the people in the show even know that studies show a connection between smoking and Alzheimer’s and if they gave that some thought.<\/p>\n

Interesting , the rise of smoking on TV is happening while depictions of smoking is on the downswing in movies. Disney (which is also Marvel and Star Wars) has a specific policy that no smoking is allowed in its movies. (There is one really brief cigarette scene in the extreme hard R-rated “Deadpool 2”. Deadpool literally uses a cigarette to kill himself. In the commentary on that movie, Ryan Reynolds said it just made more sense that since Deadpool is killing himself, he should be smoking a cigarette, not a joint.<\/p>\n

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Bojack’s mother, Beatrice, who died of Alzheimer’s after a lifetime of smoking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other shows mentioned in this article are “Orange is the New Black,” and the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”<\/p>\n

The Truth Initiative, which monitors tobacco depictions in the media, has noticed the increase in smoking onscreen in its “While You Were Streaming” report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netflix announced this week that it’s cutting smoking in some of its shows. One of the shows that has taken a lot of heat for portaying a hell of a lot of smoking is Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” The sheriff in that show is constantly smoking and Stranger Things has been specifically targeted by anti-tobacco advocates. … Continue reading Netflix to cut smoking — even on ‘Bojack’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,791,553,913],"tags":[914,916,915],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smoking-2","category-smoking-in-cartoons","category-smoking-in-media","category-smoking-on-television","tag-bojack-horseman","tag-netflix","tag-smoking-on-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/netflix-smoking-stranger-things.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-16Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4380,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4380","url_meta":{"origin":4268,"position":0},"title":"Rick and Morty comes out against vaping","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"August 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote several years ago about a Simpsons episode that came out pretty strongly against vaping. 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