Film and smoking

From February 24th until March 5th this year we had a Film Festival called FEST, and this was 34th year.
We had the opportunity to see lot of fresh new movies, few days before Oscar and this year's FEST gave us lot of nominated films etc.
Something was a little bit weird with new movies. In lot of them all actors smoke, because films are related to some topics from 50's or 60's. Like "Good night and Good Luck" or "Capote". Everybody smokes cigarettes!
In other, like this years Oscar winner "Crash", in the first scene we may hear "Do you have a cigarette?" - "No, I quitted." -"Me too." - "When?" - "Two months ago". At the end of this film - same sentences about cigarettes.

So, what is the point of this story. I think, as though the smoking is almost everywhere forbidden, that this is something very interesting. They pick themes for their films realted to the time when smoking was not taken as some criminal act just to have the opportunity to shoot some smokers and cigs in the movie. It is like some not very strong rebel against this campaign. no one likes when everything is forbidden. First it comes with cigs, then with coffee, than with chocolate and so on and on.