好萊塢電影吸菸畫面或成18禁

Films that depict actors sMoking cigarettes should carry the same age classification as those containing graphic sex and violence, according to experts.
　　據報道，有演員抽菸的情節的電影要和包含性、暴力情節的電影劃在同一年齡限制等級下。

The claim comes after a new study revealed that teenagers are more likely to take up the deadly habit after watching movies which glamorise smoking.

這項規定源於一項新的研究，研究顯示青年人更可能在看完那些美化吸菸的電影后產生抽菸這種致命的壞習慣。

Researchers from the University of Bristol found that 15-year-olds who saw the most films showing actors puffing on a cigarette were 73 per cent more likely to have tried one than those who has seen the least. They were also almost 50 per cent more likely to be a current smoker than those least exposed.

來自布里斯托大學的研究人員發現，15歲的青年人在觀看過大多數有演員吸菸鏡頭的電影后，73%的人會想去模仿，這比那些沒有看過的人比例高出很多。與接觸過更少的抽菸鏡頭的人相比，他們中的50%更願意做個現時吸菸者。

The UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies has called on the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and the Government to review their policies on film classification, arguing that under-18s need to be protected from potentially harmful imagery.

英國菸草控制研究中心曾要求英國電影分級委員會和政府重新審視他們對於電影分級的政策，尤其是討論要保護18歲以下的青少年不受潛在有害形象的危害。

Dr Andrea Waylen, who led the medical research, said: “More than half the films shown in the UK that contain smoking are rated UK15 or below, so children and young teenagers are clearly exposed. Our results confirm an association between this exposure and youth smoking in this country, indicating that raising the certification to 18 in the UK is likely to lower smoking rates among youth.”

領導這一醫療研究的安德里亞·韋倫博士說：“在英國，包含吸菸鏡頭的電影一半以上都在UK15級（英國電影分級中的一級，適合15歲以上人士觀看）或其以下，所以兒童和青少年很容易接觸到這些鏡頭。”我們的結果確認了這種接觸與該國年輕吸菸者之間的聯繫。其表明如果將等級增加到18級，年輕人吸菸的比率很有可能降低。”

Such a policy would also make the movie ratings system consistent with the ban on tobacco advertising in all other media.

這一政策也使電影分級系統與“禁止菸草廣告出現於其他任何媒體”的禁令相一致。

It was nice that David Cooke, the BBFC director, had said: “Glamorising smoking has been included as a classification issue in our published classification guidelines.”

值得高興的是，英國電影分級委員會主管大衛·庫克已表示：“是否美化吸菸現已成爲我們的出版分類準側之一。”