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2016
Hollywood not honoring anti-smoking pledge: Lawsuit
Jenna Susko and Amy Corral | NBC 4 Los Angeles (4 Apr 2016)
A nearly 60-page complaint filed by Timothy Forsyth accuses the film industry of ignoring scientific evidence linking big screen smoking to adolescent habits.
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Why should Hollywood quit smoking?
Robbie Collin | The Telegraph (1 Apr 2016)
California's anti-smoking lobby wants Hollywood to give up cigarettes. But what's so wrong with stars who light up the screen?
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Lawsuit seeks R-rating...
Debra Cassens Weiss | ABA Journal (25 Mar 2016)
The complaint also seeks damages for consumers who bought tickets to movies that were negligently rated, and disgorgement of gains from the alleged inaccurate ratings.
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An R rating, perhaps, for smoking on screen
Michael Ciepley | The New York Times (22 Mar 2016)
The dispute centers on a class-action complaint seeking to prevent films with tobacco imagery from receiving G, PG or PG-13 ratings.
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USC researcher studies prevalence of smoking in movies
Lauren Sausser | Post and Courier (15 Mar 2016)
Jim Trasher, a public health expert at the University of South Carolina, says films that feature smoking cause adolescents to smoke.
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Hollywood's rating system blamed in class action lawsuit for smoking-related deaths
Erig Gardner | The Hollywood Reporter (4 Mar 2016)
Lawsuit seeks an injunction where no films featuring tobacco imagery can be given "G," "PG" or "PG-13" ratings.
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Film biz needs to get the message on smoking
The Editors | Vancouver (BC) Sun (3 Mar 2016)
Indeed, the World Health Organization in early February stated that onscreen smoking prompts more than a third of young people who smoke to do so.
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Tobacco opponent takes on movie industry
John Chown | Courthouse News Service (29 Feb 2016)
Saying 1 million young lives are at stake, a Bay Area activist filed a class action against six major movie studios and the Motion Picture Association of America to try to stop children from being exposed to tobacco products in movies.
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Father targets film studios over smoking scenes in movies
Steven Trader | Law360 (26 Feb 2016)
A father hit the Motion Picture Association of America and six of Hollywood's largest film studios with a proposed class action over including smoking scenes in movies rated suitable for children.
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MPAA, studios slapped with class-action lawsuit over smoking in films
Tim Kenneally | The Wrap (26 Feb 2016)
Complaint claims that instances of smoking in youth-related films, with certain exceptions, are negligent.
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