WLNS-TV Lansing, 8 Nov 2019 | Officials say tobacco use in top-...
Daily Mail, 7 Nov 2019 | China censors films and TV series that...
MinnPost, 4 Nov 2019 | Smoking scenes in movies — particularly...
More news

More ads

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)
View source | Policy endorsers
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)
View source | Policy endorsers
We're pretty sure nobody bought tickets to 'Rango' because they wanted to see a fox or toad with a cigarette.
— The editors of USA Today (2011)
View source | Policy endorsers
As a truly toxic and addictive product, tobacco has no place in films that are marketed to youth.
— U.N. World Health Organization (2011)
View source | Policy endorsers
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)
View source | Policy endorsers

Learn more

More images

31 Oct 2019| Seeing more tobacco content, CDC recommends the "R"
17 Oct 2019| Ontario gov’t censors tobacco-content ratings
2 Oct 2019| Media giants sandbag Senators on child-safety data

Go to blog