Rich Perlman over at CigarCylopedia, wrote a funny post about the AMA group that threw a fit over the fact that cigar smoking was shown in the movie….gasp…gasp!  Never mind that the character in question has always been in the Hulk movies and comic books for years.  Anyway, Rich can explain it better and more humorously than I can….his entire post is shown below…courtesy of CigarCyclopedia:

A grass-roots anti-smoking organization affiliated with the American Medical Association called the AMA Alliance blasted Marvel Pictures last week for the smoking imagery in “The Incredible Hulk.”

Diane Fenyk, president of the Alliance said in a statement, “Shame on ‘The Incredible Hulk’ for unnecessarily adding smoking to a sequel that would have been just as exciting and believable without it.” Fenyk added that the first Hulk film – “Hulk,” released in 2003 – did not have smoking scenes.

At issue is not the main character of Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk but his primary nemesis, General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, played by William Hurt (pictured above). The character of Ross smokes cigars continuously in the film . . . just as he did in the original comic edition of The Incredible Hulk which first appeared in 1962. In fact, in The Incredible Hulk No. 1, Ross is first pictured on page two of the comic . . . with a cigar in his hand!

Perhaps the Alliance will try re-writing Shakespeare or The Bible next (a lot of unprotected sex in the latter, you know), but the AMA warning didn’t seem to have much impact on the viewing public.

Proving that Fenyk isn’t much of a critic either, during the movie’s June 13-15 opening weekend, the PG-13-rated “The Incredible Hulk” was the top box-office earner by a wide margin, pulling in $55.4 million in the U.S. alone and is expected to do well again this weekend and eventually surpass the earnings of the 2003 edition of the story of the mighty green monster. In other words, this film is smokin’.
~ Rich Perelman

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