In the article written by John Delaney, ‘Cut smoking in movies, doctors tell Holllywood’, which has been published by the Epoch Times shows that the existence of a negative moral value in television, DVDs and the Internet raises a serious problem among the youth. Moreover, the media is considered as one of the influential factors that brought threats to the youth. Some medical professionals, particularly in the United States and Canada say that smoking scenes in Hollywood movies influence young people on smoking. They also want smoking scenes eliminated in youth-rated films.
Based on studies and research conducted by the World Health Organisation, the U.S Institute Medicine and the U.S National cancer Institute showed that smoking scenes in movies is the greatest place for youth getting addicted to the smoking in their life. Research Director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada argues that estimated at 43,000 from 130,000 Canadian teenagers would die prematurely from smoking.
Actually, the right to determine good or bad it’s depend on the individual, but without control and observation from parents, the adolescents are more vulnerable to negative elements such as smoking and drugs which is influenced by the movies. It can be concluded that the producers of the film as being individualistic and more concerned about the profit while don’t aware on the adverse effects of long-term impact on the youth. The film industry should play an important role and more effective ways to reduce the spread of movies that are less healthy.
In order to protect the adolescents, the government can also play an important role by increasing cigarette prices and tax. We also need the young generation remains healthy all times. They are lining the country’s future, hence, the element of moral education and exposure to smoking scenes in movies should be controlled in order to build healthy young generation.
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