Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

This just in from Josh, concerning the latest Star Wars cartoon movie:

The movie has been given a “PG” rating because “sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.”

Seriously???  Momentary smoking?  What the fuck is that???  I’m only guessing, but I assume they’re talking about Jabba, who smokes on his little hooka looking thing.  And if they’d bothered to read any of the books like I have, they’d know that it isn’t tobacco or anything similar that he’s smoking!

And the obligatory screen capture:

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So beware parents! Your precious, unsullied, pure children may be exposed to a cartoon that smokes, if only for a moment! Have your hands ready to cover their virgin eyes immediately when you think the smoking scene is about to intrude onto the screen and into your lives. Make sure your delicate flowers get a clear, stern lecture about the pure evil of smoking before and after the movie. And you may want to routinely search their rooms for the next year or so in case momentary exposure to a smoking cartoon inspires them to buy a pack of unfiltered Camels with their allowance money.

We are creating a future nation of pussies (if we’re not that way already). A briefly smoking cartoon is reason enough to contribute to a PG movie rating and a printed explanation. Smoking is an issue dominated by hysteria and kookery where responsible adults who choose to smoke are vilified and ostracized in every way imaginable, all justified by junk science and the tyranny of the majority. “We want it that way,” and that justification is good enough to force smokers into compliance at the point of government’s gun. Just wait until your favorite voluntary personal habit becomes the target of the righteous and the sensitive who believe they have a right to be totally free from anything offensive ever happening to them, and they’re not afraid to fine or jail you to preserve their increasingly fragile peace of mind.

Had enough yet?