The Oscars are tonight, and the usual suspects trot out their perennial anti-smoking campaign. The anti-smokers are using billboards to chide Hollywood for having the audacity to portray smokers in their films. They claim that kids that watch movies with smokers are much more likely to smoke than kids that don't. Whether or not that is true is up for debate. I mean heaven forbid that parents and children be held accountable for their own decisions.

But I find it very interesting that of all the gripes you could have about Hollywood smoking would top the list. I mean movies and television are rampant with drinking, drug abuse, sexual activity, homosexuality, murder, and a various sundry of other sins. While I personally enjoy watching all of those things, it still strikes me as odd that smoking would be considered the most wicked activity for pleasure police have to go after.

Try hanging a billboard that chides Hollywood for their portrayal of sex (or worse yet homosexual sex), and watch them brand you as a conservative nutcase.