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...
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Aug 8, 2019 jono
On August 6, forty-three state and territorial Attorneys General wrote America's leading media companies asking them...
Aug 2, 2019 jono
Netflix, the smokiest of the US streaming services, is going to develop more original programs around the world.
Having already bankrolled local programming in Germany, France and the UK, Netflix will now target other international...
Jul 26, 2019 jono
Both the United States and Canada have taken steps to stop tobacco promotion to children and teens. In fact, Canada has gone substantially further, banning tobacco advertising and product placement altogether.
But Canada's public...
Jul 2, 2019 jono
In the new movie Yesterday (Comcast, PG-13), a young man wakes up and realizes that — in his new reality — the Beatles never existed. This gives him some pretty good ideas for some songs he calls his own.
But that's...
Jun 26, 2019 jono
Jun 24, 2019 jono
The Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (Beijing) released the winners of its Dirty Ashtray...
Jun 19, 2019 jono
What makes Men in Black: International (PG-13, Sony) different from the three other films in the two-decade MIB franchise?
No Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones. No Barry Sonnenfeld as...
May 10, 2019 jono
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted its latest Smoking in the Movies fact sheet online....
May 1, 2019 jono
They probably hope Congress will notice | The Motion Picture Association of America has added one of its rare “smoking” descriptors to a PG-rated Netflix documentary called Knock Down the House
Actually, the MPAA does more than note there's “smoking” in this movie — it's described...