What I meant is that when I saw Sigourney Weaver light up for the first time, I thought to myself "man, before this movie ends, someone is going to hassle her about smoking, or she'll decide to give it up, or something". Then I was pleasantly surprised when it didn't happen. That's not the same thing as expecting smoking to be "demonized", BTW. And yeah obviously there have been recent movies where "good" characters smoked, but I think you are overstating how often it happens, at least in big-name blockbuster-type movies (like Avatar). A quick google research expedition reveals this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/03...ies/index.html, suggesting that smoking in such movies really has become fairly rare in recent years--certainly it does not appear in a "majority" of such movies, if you have to watch four such movies (on average) to see a single smoking scene. Anyhow, I don't want this thread to become a discussion about smoking in movies, so again, all I meant was that I expected something to be made of it in Avatar and nothing was. Maybe it was the overly-preachy nature of Avatar in particular that gave me that expectation, who knows. Or the way in which they had a very famous actress very prominently smoke in her first appearance in the film, that seemed like kind of a set-up. And I don't smoke tobacco either, except for the occasional cigar, and don't smoke weed at all
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