Should smoking in movies warrant an R rating?

A study shows that watching scenes which portrayed smoking in PG-13 movies led to more teens experimenting with cigarettes.  One cancer specialist says, “The movie industry [should] treat smoking like it treats profanity and sex and violence.  If saying the ‘F’ word twice gets you an R rating, certainly something as important as smoking should get you an R rating.”

Do you think seeing smoking in movies is more likely to make teens want to smoke?

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