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I have mixed feelings about the issue of smoking in movies. There's actually some reasonable research supporting the concern that teens watching smoking in movies are more likely to start smoking than teens who haven't (though apparently anti-smoking notices shown before the start of the film can mitigate this). This doesn't apply to older films, as they aren't shown in theaters (I'm not sure if the research around smoking on TV is the same), and even the organizations pushing for banning smoking in new films have no problems with exceptions for historical films about people who actually smoked (Churchill is the usually cited example, but Ed Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck is another --I guess they aren't worried about teens watching films about Churchill and Murrow anyway!)
And I haven't seen any research saying anyone is more likely to take up smoking after reading about a character smoking, so I guess it's irrelevant to books anyway.
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