On November 5, 2018, Christopher Ferguson and colleagues published ‘Movie Smoking and Teen Smoking Behavior: A Critical Methodological and Meta-Analytic Review” in Psychology of Popular Media Culture. The paper argues that the conclusions of the US Surgeon General and National Cancer...
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Dec 23, 2018 SGlantz
Dec 18, 2018 SGlantz
Green Book is a biopic about the unlikely friendship that develops between Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from the...
Dec 18, 2018 SGlantz
On December 17, 2018, Smokefree Movies ran its 128th ad in Variety and Hollywood Reporter reminding the studios and multinational tobacco companies that own them that they have known for 17 years that onscreen smoking hooks kids on tobacco, one third of who die early as a result.
While we have made progress – onscreen smoking is still well below its 2005 peak – but the studios still have not...
Nov 20, 2018 jono
AT&T's purchase of Time Warner may not be complete until 2019, but the phone giant has already set up a new WarnerMedia division under CEO John Stankey to run Warner Bros. and New Line, Warner Bros. Television and HBO. In September 2018,...
Oct 16, 2018 jono
A team of US researchers report that forty-four percent of the most popular hip-hop videos between 2013 and 2017 featured smoking or use of vapor products — up from thirty percent of rap videos in 1997.
Brand display in the videos that showed combustible tobacco products grew from zero in 2013 to ten percent five years later. One in four videos showing an electronic product displayed brand names in 2013; by 2017, eighty-eight percent also showed the...
Sep 4, 2018 jono
The twenty smokiest producers in Hollywood:
• made 294 top-grossing films with smoking in the past 15 years
• made sure that 70% of these smoking films...
Aug 29, 2018 jono
Aug 22, 2018 SGlantz
After breezing through the California State Senate, a resolution recommending that Hollywood stop recruiting millions of kids to smoke was smothered in an Assembly Committee on Tuesday — just one vote shy of...
Aug 16, 2018 jono
2018’s brightest development, so far, is that half of the studios making up the MPAA—Disney, Sony and Paramount (Viacom)—have kept all their youth-rated films 100 percent smokefree since January. Each company has achieved a smokefree or near-smokefree year before, but this is the first...
Aug 1, 2018 jono
Among the hundreds of actors and extras directed to smoke on screen over the past fifteen years, twenty qualify as the smokiest actors in Hollywood.
This small group accounts for more than 130 top-grossing films with smoking — mostly kid-rated PG-13...