Smokefree Movies

QUOTE UNQUOTE | Who's saying what about smoking movies

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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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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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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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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