Here we have Disney’s Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland and a child imitating with a garden hose. It’s no wonder, then, that the MPAA said yesterday that its rating board will consider the depiction of smoking in movies among the criteria for assigning ratings. Anti-tobacco activists have long pushed for an automatic R rating for films with smoking scenes, but MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman rejected the proposal for a more “nuanced” approach. The ratings board “will now consider smoking as a factor among many other factors, including violence, sexual situations and language, in the rating of films,” he said. No one will be spared – not even Disney. (Source; t/y Liz)