News | 2010
2010
You get red ink with that popcorn
Dan Morain | The Sacramento Bee (12 Dec 2010)
The roach motel analogy: Tax credits go into the code book but they don't come out.
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Don't show any butts in PG-13
The editors | The Boston Globe (28 Aug 2010)
Watching characters smoke in movies is the single most powerful pro-smoking influence for children.
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Why Hollywood movies with smoking scenes need an R-rating
Clayton Jones | The Christian Science Monitor (23 Aug 2010)
Why does Hollywood still not impose an R-rating for all movies with tobacco use?
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Fighting against smoking in the movies
Claudia Kalb | Newsweek (20 Aug 2010)
Activist pushes campaign to stop Hollywood showcasing deadly habit.
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Rated 'R' for smoking?
Laura Blue | Time (19 Aug 2010)
Forcing an R-rating on movies would create a powerful incentive, say authors of a new report.
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'Step forward' in limiting smoking scenes in films
Michael Cieply | The New York Times (19 Aug 2010)
Health organizations have pressed the film industry to assign an R-rating to any film that portrayed tobacco use.
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Lighting up the dark
Amy Kaufman | Los Angeles Times (19 Aug 2010)
Rep. Markey: 'It's time for the movie industry to accept its own version of a nicotine patch.'
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Depictions of smoking in movies are on the wane
Shari Roan | Los Angeles Times (19 Aug 2010)
Efforts by public health and anti-smoking groups to reduce TV and movie images of smoking appear to be working.
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Butt out smoking on silver screen: MDs
| CBC (19 Aug 2010)
Every dollar in film subsidies may in the end cost Canada $1.70 in societal tobacco losses.
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Smoking still too common in movies, CDC says
| Reuters (19 Aug 2010)
Only one studio has no-smoking policy for youth films.
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