The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks onscreen smoking the same way that it tracks cholera outbreaks. Check out CDC's summary of kids' exposure to movie smoking, in 2017, on its latest ...
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Apr 25, 2018 jono
Investors with more than half a trillion dollars under management have asked The Walt Disney Company to protect young audiences from hundreds of Fox films with smoking that Disney will receive in its planned takeover of Fox assets.
Investors listed their...
Apr 16, 2018 jono
On April 15, 2018, public health experts in the UK sent the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology a strong reminder that the biggest media risk to kids is tobacco imagery that recruits and addicts millions of new, young smokers.
Along with the latest...
Mar 16, 2018 jono
A new report from Truth Initiative (Washington, DC) finds nearly 80 percent of TV shows with the most young viewers showcase smoking.
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Mar 11, 2018 jono
The latest UCSF-Breathe California annual report on smoking in US top-grossing films finds backsliding, not progress:
• PG-13 films with tobacco | 50%...
Feb 18, 2018 jono
Allison Janney is nominated for best supporting actress for her role as figure skater Tonya Harding's abusive mother in "I, Tonya."
While the film is based on real events, the chain-smoking LaVona Golden could not be located before production began, says Janney. So she and...
Feb 7, 2018 jono
The Oscars are coming Sunday, March 4, 2018. And you have more reason than ever to watch: a tobacco explosion in Oscar-nominated films.
• 86 percent of this year's films listed in major...
Jan 27, 2018 SGlantz
Philip Morris International is promoting IQOS, its new “heat not burn” tobacco product, all over the world, including in Japan, as a healthier alternative to cigarettes.
A 2017 scientific paper tracked four years of...
Jan 11, 2018 sfm_admin
Unless things change in Ontario, Canada, onscreen smoking will recruit 185,000 kids to smoke. Now legislators want their film rating agency to take action.
So...
Jan 9, 2018 SGlantz
Smokefree Movies’ partner As You Sow has a great free online tool, Tobacco Free Funds, that tells you if your retirement account is funding cigarettes or tobacco-filled movies. As You Sow built this database because nearly...