smoking on screen...right or wrong

Exactly it is one's own choice to smoke or not. If a character in a movie or show is smoking it does not mean someone will go out in smoke. That's the same arguements they use with violence. That if a teenager sees someone shoot another they will want to go out and shoot someone. Please give our, children, teenagers and adults some modicum of free will and intelligence. They are not marrionettes who will do whatever TV or Celebrities tell them. Yes it can influence them but not to the extent it takes away their free will. It doesn't suck it out of them so that they have to blindly follow everything they see or hear. They can figure out what to do for themselves.

i storngly that smoking onscreen inspires us.The best example is my frend he made smoking as his habit after watching alot of movies.he himself told me that he got inspired from the movies

I do not think I believe this either. There are way more factors to them smoking then seeing on a tv screen. Besides this is rarely even shown on screen any more not like it use to be, and it did not make me want to run out and smoke.

I am not sure how it goes in the US and other developed countries, but here in India the movie super stars are role models of many youngsters including children. When a hero smokes in the screen stylishly the juvenile minds admiring that actor is influenced and imitates the action of the hero. Anyway now a days smoking scenes are sencored from movies and I believe it is for the good.