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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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Hollywood started me smoking, literally putting a cigarette in my hand. Who knows how many moviegoers have started smoking because of what they have seen on the screen?
— Actor Kirk Douglas (2003)
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We must continue to exploit new opportunities to get cigarettes on screen and into the hands of smokers.
— Philip Morris International (1983)
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Disney...committed to eliminating smoking from all its movies watched by children. We could save over a million children from premature death if every film studio followed suit.
— U.S. Surgeon General (2015)
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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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