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SMOKEFREERATINGCOMPANY
Avengers: Infinity War PG-13
Disney
Book Club PG-13
Viacom
Hereditary R
A24
Incredibles 2 PG
Disney
Solo: A Star Wars Story PG-13
Disney
Tag R
Time Warner
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Adrift PG-13
STX
Deadpool 2 R
Fox
Ocean's 8 PG-13
Time Warner
SuperFly R
Sony

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 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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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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