“HBO Max Removed Cigarettes And Cigars From Classic Movie Posters On Its Streaming Platform”
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Smoking, in this context, represents sort of “old school macho values”. That, I suspect, is why they want it gone. Not because they actively care about preventing smoking…
But it also represents “freedom”, and we know how much they hate that, lol…
FYI, guys, in India this was the norm, with all movie scenes containing smoking (but in an even more clunky way. It particularly made Titanic utterly unwatchable. I remember that much) literally a decade ago. And it made zero difference to smoking rates.
It’s just that the West has… Finally caught up to India, in oppressive, sad bullshit like that…