Movies … promoting tobacco have become even more important as other forms of tobacco promotion are constrained.
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The Deccan Chronicle
Celebrities need to confine such habits to their private life.
Business Insider
India's film industry has adopted a strict stance against tobacco advertising.
Scientific American
Over the last decade, movies with smoking made less money.
Albany Times Union
New York state tax money funds anti-smoking campaigns, movies that encourage young people to light up.
The Guardian
Imperial College team says government is 'seriously undermining' anti-tobacco campaign.
San Francisco Chronicle
About 70 percent of all PG-13 movies subsidized under California's [tax credit] program depict smoking.
New York Magazine
So why make cigarettes look cool—unless you have a deal with Big Tobacco?
Reuters
Drop largely attributed to policies by major film studios Time Warner, Disney and Comcast.
The Christian Science Monitor
Moviegoers are much less likely to see scenes depicting smoking these days, but Hollywood could do more.
USA Today
We're suggesting that Paramount showed poor judgment — and so have others.
New Scientist
From kids starting to smoke to adults struggling to stop, the tobacco industry benefits hugely from smoking on screen.
The Christian Science Monitor
Why does Hollywood still not impose an R-rating for all movies with tobacco use?
Time
Forcing an R-rating on movies would create a powerful incentive, say authors of a new report.
The New York Times
Health organizations have pressed the film industry to assign an R-rating to any film that portrayed tobacco use.
Los Angeles Times
Rep. Markey: 'It's time for the movie industry to accept its own version of a nicotine patch.'
CBC
Every dollar in film subsidies may in the end cost Canada $1.70 in societal tobacco losses.
AP
CDC sees a declining trend ... but not 'nearly enough progress.'
Los Angeles Times
Efforts by public health and anti-smoking groups to reduce TV and movie images of smoking appear to be working.
Los Angeles Times
The amount of smoking in PG-13-rated movies is of particular concern, because that's where teens view it most.
The New York Times
Research shows "the movies are the largest single reason kids start to smoke."
The New York Times
We want movies to acknowledge what is real, but also to improve on reality.
The New York Times
Since 1990, Philip Morris USA’s policy has been to refrain from product placement in movies.
The Economic Times (India)
The character played by Sigourney Weaver … is still puffing away on her cigarettes some 150 years in the future.
New York Magazine
You stigmatize tobacco because it kills hundreds of thousands of people a year — or at least you give it...an 'R.'
The New York Times
It’s hard to condemn the strategy of using information, not censorship, to confront a perceived public-health threat.