Movie group slaps new restrictions on smoking

Attention film producers: smoking may now be hazardous to your movies.

The group that rates US movies in terms of their suitability for children has unveiled new rules affecting tobacco use in films that would stop children from seeing movies that glorified on-screen smoking.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said that in the past, illegal teen smoking has been just one factor in rating films, alongside other parental concerns such as sex, violence and adult language.