Movies and Smoking: A Story Worth Telling

In movies, smoke is one of the most common and charming symbols.

There are too many classic shots that remain in the minds of the public-carrying the quiet thoughts and emotions of every movie-viewer.

Wong Kar-wai's films always give them a lot of meaning.

In "Spring Light Together", He Baorong accepted other people's cigarettes just to gamble on that breath, with childish levity. Light the cigarette butt, smoke will swirl around, creating the most lonely and ambiguous feelings.

Cigarette represents exactly what he said to Li Yaohui,"Let's start over", this ambiguous love.

Leung Chiu-wei only showed up for two and a half minutes in "The True Story of A Fei". The long camera shot him holding a cigarette to tidy up his appearance, counting a thick stack of banknotes, and finally combing the oil head with a comb. When the lights were turned off, the movie ended.

There were no lines throughout the process, but it created the most classic scene, leaving a lasting impression on the film.

Many foreign movies also show scenes of smoke.

In Titanic, Ruth smokes as a rich girl, which means she pursues freedom and independence of love.

The scene of lighting a cigarette in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" set off Ma Linna to be beautiful and domineering, and set off how ugly the faces of those men were.

However, so many classic smoking scenes are just for artistic needs.

Returning to reality, the fact that smoking is harmful to health cannot be ignored. Tar, nicotine and other ingredients in cigarettes are causing great harm to the human body and hides a carcinogenic threat.

Considering that cigarettes in film and television works have certain public influence, relevant departments in many countries have issued relevant regulations to regulate cigarette shots in film and television works.

China: "The strongest smoking ban in history"

In 2014, the State Council issued the "Regulations on Smoking Control in Public Places (Draft for Review)", which stipulates that if "scenes of smoking in places where smoking is prohibited" and "scenes of smoking with minors present" appear in film and television works, the production unit will be fined up to 30,000 yuan.

US: Calls for movies with smoking scenes to be classified as "restricted"

A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mentioned that movie smoking scenes will induce approximately 6 million existing American children to smoke. As a result, many health agencies jointly called for movies with smoking scenes to be classified as "restricted".

With the introduction of policies, cigarette footage has become increasingly rare in film and television works.Instead, e-cigarettes entered the public eye。

2014? "House of Cards" released in 2009? 2? Season? 4? Concentrate,The protagonist? Underwood? With his wife? Claire? The scene of smoking e-cigarettes made e-cigarettes appear in American TV dramas for the first time.

The classic American drama "True Detective" was also broadcast, with footage of e-cigarettes.

Even in last year's "The God of Car Stealing", fugitive driver "Baby" fell in love with a restaurant waitress who loved e-cigarettes.

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It can be seen that e-cigarettes are known and accepted by more and more people.

In the UK, e-cigarettes already have 3 million fans. According to the GuardianThe Public Health Agency of the United Kingdom (PHE) has begun selling steam products in hospitals.

Xiao Lizi, the global gold medal free spokesperson of e-cigarettesLeonardoI even love e-cigarettes.

As e-cigarette products become popular around the world, the frequency of e-cigarette products appearing in future film and television works will also increase.

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It will also allow more peoplecorrectawareness andUnderstand e-cigarettes and enter a virtuous cycle.

Maybe in another two or three years

When you walk into the movie theater

Look up at the big screen

Look down at the e-cigarette in your hand

Hey, same model!