The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted its eighth annual update on "Smoking in the Movies...
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As You Sow, a Smokefree Movies partner, released a new report on October 28, 2020:
On October 5, 2020, forty-three Attorneys General asked Hollywood's producers, directors, writers, actors and crew to...
On September 1, Truth Initiative reported that smoking pervaded...
The big movie studios are starting to make films again — taking over entire hotels in countries with fewer infections...
In July 2019, TV-14 rated Stranger Things' latest season debuted on Netflix with smoking and tobacco brands throughout. After widespread criticism, Netflix pledged to keep smoking out of its future kid-rated original movies and TV shows — but it has never put the policy on paper.
Now, Netflix's policy will be tested by a new TV series it just...
In the first two weeks of June 2020, the Smokefree Movies R-rating petition more than doubled the number of signers from 16,000 to 38,000.
The public petition demands an R-rating...
Streaming technologies have exploded Hollywood's old business models. The COVID-19 pandemic, as of spring 2020, has halted studio production and distribution in the US and Europe.
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