Varför gick Konstantin TV-show ut ur sin väg för att aldrig visa den titulära karaktären att röka?

I följande artikel från Entertainment Weekly "Constantine" -lag om varför NBC-karaktär är inte bisexuell, röka cigaretter , hävdar producenterna att de inte kunde förhärliga karaktärens rökning på grund av nätverksinnehållsstandarder.

For the show, producers say Constantine is indeed a smoker … just don’t expect to actually see him smoking. Producers say there’s not much they can do about this due to network content standards.

“He is a smoker in the show, we’re not shying away from it, but we’re not glorifying it,” said executive producer David S. Goyer.

Från Wikipedia:

The show remains more faithful to the source material than the 2005 film, although on-screen depiction of Constantine's chain-smoking habit was said to be curtailed because of broadcast television restrictions (the network eventually becomes more lenient and John is shown smoking on screen in later episodes)

Länk till refererad artikel: Constantine Kommer inte att tillåtas röka på TV .

In an interview with Collider, pilot-episode director Neil Marshall was asked point-blank about the detail and answered

"No we're not. It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see."