Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 06, 2022

It’s something you’re going to start doing over both of our dead bodies.

They learn early. 8^ (

LOL

Since when do R movies include smoking? I’ve not seen an R movie nor plan on seeing one.

i am sure Shannon has seeen it all!

I don’t know why people get so worried about children and nudity. It does children no harm at all to see what people look like without clothes. Indeed, there are still plenty of children who grow up in societies where very little clothing is worn, and they seem to survive.

Hilarious – implying that Shannon already knows about the other stuff!!!!

They’ll just watch that one later when Shannon goes to bed…..

Smoking is “R” rated.

Knowing Shannon history i would put it past her to set something on fire.

FWIW, plenty of people still smoke in the real world, though perhaps not in the places where Shannon gets to go.

Funny, she only wanted to know about smoking.

In some countries it’s violence that makes a movie unsuitable for children.

Smoking: When you stick something in your face and set fire to it.

Just remember, once again, Shannon never goes home.

Unless you consider Brad and Toni as Shannon’s home.

Shannon’s haircut gets worse with every appearance. Send help!

The only thing that saved “Smokey and the Bandit” from an R rating was a truck air horn being blown over Jackie Gleason saying “f*** off.” You can see his lips saying it.

Ah, kids must be kept sheltered from the beauty of the natural human body and its functions!But smoking is a monster.

Smoking is more dastardly than those other things

I suspect Shannon has seen people smoke unless she’s been kept inside and never allowed out. Grocery stores, fast food, hospitals, QT, any place people work will have designated smoking areas not far from entrances where smokers congregate. Also there are those stands to put the butts in before entering the building that are definitely not trash bins.

Don’t both answer at once!

“Smoking” is something that often precedes the word “Hot,” Shannon.

Plus it’s also something you’re not allowed to do anymore, ANYWHERE.

And it sometimes can be found on the water, according to the guys in Deep Purple.

Q: What’s smoking?

A: The pretty lady.

Ooh… haven’t seen THAT coming…

Actually, she asks a good question.

How times have changed- they’re more likely to mention smoking than language.

Dear little shannon ♡. This reminds me of when I was little and reading the indications in the TV guide I was reading heroism instead of eroticism because I didn’t understand what eroticism was.

ATTENTION:

“Smoking” in this case is not used as a verb; it’s an adverb/adjective depending on what Toni interrupted from Brad’s continuation …

“Smoking is where you pay someone to let you kill yourself slowly.”

Toni is “smoking”—at least to Brad.

;-)

Best thing that kid ever said! If it has fallen so far out of favor that she ask to ask what it is, then that is a good sign.

I correctly guesses yesterday that Shannon would be in the Sunday strip.

At least she’s behaving herself today.

BTW, how many kids her age watch the horror films on “Svenghooli” (Saturdays, 8-10 PM ET on MeTV)?

Betcha they’re more traumatizing than R-rated movies!!

does this mean she knows what thee other stuff is?

We never had to explain smoking in my family. I had to explain why I didn’t take it up.

Today’s comic is very accurate.

Well Shannon, smoking is very unhealthy and it can kill you. So, do not do it.

It’s A Comic Strip, people…. get ahold of reality. Honestly…..

You don’t necessarily notice that people don’t smoke on television anymore until you go back and watch reruns of a show like Perry Mason where everyone smoked like a cheap furnace.

Hopefully tomorrow we’ll get back to something more interesting. Maybe Bernice could streak across the room in front of Gunther and Ox or something.

In other words, she knows what all the other ones are.

That was pretty funny

Hmmm, Shannon knows about sex and swearing, it’s just smoking that’s a “What?”….

Besides the fact that smoking is not a program warning for movies anywhere in the world, making this whole conversation ridiculous, Shannon knows what sex, nudity and swearing is, so why would they be uncomfortable with telling her what smoking is? Maybe they think it should be included as a warning for movies and they want to publish their personal opinion. Maybe they want us to believe that she has never seen anyone smoking, which is a really unbelievable stretch. Maybe they visited an Amish town on Saturday and have decided to incorporate those values into their comic. Hard to say what it is when they miss the mark by this far.

Maybe one day little kids can ask the same about gun violence.

Looking forward to the day when no one knows what smoking is.

My parents were at one time both smokers. But they gave it up when I was young. And I never saw them with a cigarette again. As my Dad said “I’ve smoked since I was thirteen; that’s long enough.”

The demon child was actually funny today. Will wonders never cease?

Tobacco companies pay to have characters smoke. Movies set in modern times have no other reason to show it.

It’s what old people call vaping

Fair question in this day and age. Vaping, she probably knows.

they need to lock the bedroom door

One of the biggest changes in my life is from the smoking 50s to the non-smoking now. (that and mens’ hats to hatless)

A movie will be R Rated for Violence, language or sex. I don’t mind the nudity and sex, not too bothered by language, but I cannot watch anything too violent.

She’s already seen the rest at home…….

Shannon is lucky she has never been exposed to smoking.

Childhood innocence doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

I like the only word she questions is “smoking” lol

Shannon knows all about sex, nudity and swearing from the one time she walked in on Toni and Brad in bed. If she would have let them finish the act, she might have witnessed them smoking too. : )

Yeah Brad is surprised by Shannon’s choice of question.

It’s smoking that she notices, when sex, and nudity are involved?

Yeah, remember the good old days when everyone had a cigarette in his/her hand?

Now if he had said Vaping, she would most likely know what he was talking about

Since she knows what the others are, perhaps they should have cut the cord a long time ago. Too late now, the cow is out of the barn.

I know I am in the minority on this, but I wish movies could be made without “nudity” and “bedroom scenes” and “bad words” and “unneeded love interests” and take out the filler stuff and put in more what the movie is geared for. The movie might be 20 minutes in length and make no money but for today’s people with short attention spans it would be a bonus!!!

I don’t know very many people who smoke cigarettes or cigars… But I know far more people who smoke cannabis.…

Too true…

The movie is rated LSMFT

Cancer sticks.

Inhaling the by-products of burning tobacco. This country was founded on that and the slave labour used to cultivate that.

I really wish Toni would get over her insecurities about having a child. She will make an great mother when she is ready.

Uh oh…

1965 smoking. I was five years! My dad Quit too! I hate smoking.

Touche

Shannon is a very lucky kid, if she really doesn’t know what smoking is.

I’ve seen notes on movies that said “Rated R due to language.” Apparently, there are people who will watch only wordless movies.

Another common disclaimer is “Adult Situations,” which I take to mean the film includes people talking about their mortgages and interest rates.

Interesting thing is, the Federal Government funded anti – smoking campaigns while at the same time, subsidized tobacco farmers.

She’s got sex and nudity covered.

Hahahaha…..that was pretty funny…

What’s the punchline? That little kids know what nudity is but not smoking? How is that a joke?

“… I’m well acquainted with the rest.”

Sadly, today’s kids know what smoking is.

I hate Shannon. Please get rid of her and bring back Lindy. I loved that she called Puddles Puzzles. Honestly, Shannon is the opposite of cute.

Yikes!

Toni. Toni is smoking.

Shannon is a sign of modern times today.

I knew an old lady that dipped “snuff.”

Need a light..? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MI94o8EU4U

Smoking also called hammering the nails in your coffin. Swearing doesn’t hurt you and neither does sex so…

She’s already seen her Father doing all those other things.

The Brat irritates me, and I know it’s bad of me to say this, but (at leeast rhetorically) would somebody please smoke Shannon?!

Humphrey Bogart was famous for never being without a cigarette.

But he died of lung cancer and weighed less than 100 pounds at the end.

She knows what everything is but smoking? Wow I must say that is surprising until you remember TJ lived there for awhilr

I’ve never seen Cruella, but someone was telling me they cut out her cigarette. That seems way too iconic to be cut out…

In Arthur C. Clarke’s The Ghost From the Grand Banks, there’s a character who has made zillions of dollars by devising a process to remove, digitally, smoking from old movies. In the story, by that future time, smoking had become so rare, and considered so abhorrent, that audiences watching a scene featuring some people smoking would be unable to concentrate on the dialog because they were so aware—or titillated or horrified or disgusted—by the smoking.

(As I recall, the other zillionaire got rich by devising a universal solution to the Y2K problem…)

We’ve never prevented our child from watching stuff with sex and nudity in it. That’s just natural human behavior. We’re more concerned about gratuitious depictions of cruelty and gore.

It’s yucky, dangerous, and off-putting. That’s all you need to know.