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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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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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As a truly toxic and addictive product, tobacco has no place in films that are marketed to youth.
— U.N. World Health Organization (2011)
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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)
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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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