Smokefree Movies Blog
Working with colleagues at New Delhi's HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) and WHO, we just published a paper in Tobacco Control:...
The Walt Disney Company has kept its kid-rated movie and TV shows practically smokefree since 2016. But up to now, Disney has not made...
1) Of the eighteen movies listed for Oscars in major categories this year, how many include smoking?
A. 60 percent
B. 78 percent
C. 86 percent
D. 94 percent
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On December 9, 2019, the Los Angeles Times published a round-table interview...
After examining tobacco content in U.S. films since 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has put renewed weight behind R-rating future films with tobacco.
A ...
In a pre-emptive move serving the commercial interests of Hollywood studios already heavily subsidized by Toronto, Ontario’s government has killed off its decades-old provincial film rating service.
The...
Last April, with nicotine addiction soaring among American schoolchildren, three U.S. Senators quizzed America's media companies about their own...
The third season of Stranger Things (TV-14) debuted on Netflix on July 4 weekend. Coke, Burger King, JC Penny, The Gap, 7-11 and other high-profile brands visible in the show had well-planned...
On August 6, forty-three state and territorial Attorneys General wrote America's leading media companies asking them...