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Each time the [film] industry releases another movie that depicts smoking, it does so with the full knowledge of the harm it will bring to children who watch it.
— State Attorneys General (2012)
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An MPAA policy to give films with smoking an adult (R) rating ... could eliminate youth-rated films as sources of exposure to on-screen tobacco imagery.
— U.S. Surgeon General (2012)
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Let's keep tobacco companies and the greedheads who take their money from bombarding kids with the message that smoking is what cool people do.
— Film critic David Edelstein (2010)
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Movies with depictions of any tobacco product use should be given a minimum of an R rating.
— American Academy of Pediatrics (2015)
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According to the scientific evidence, if defendants continue their current rating of films with tobacco imagery, defendants’ conduct will kill approximately one million children.
— Forsyth v MPAA et al. (2016)
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