Por que o programa de TV de Constantine saiu do seu caminho para nunca mostrar o personagem-título fumando?

No seguinte artigo da Entertainment Weekly 'equipe de Constantine' sobre por que o personagem da NBC não é bissexual, fumar cigarros , os produtores afirmam que não podem glorificar o fumo do personagem devido aos padrões de conteúdo da rede.

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.

da Wikipédia:

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)

Link para o artigo mencionado: Constantine Não será permitido fumar na 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."