News | 2012
2012
At Vanity Fair’s Oscar party, everyone is someone
Cigarette and candy girls in cream mini-dresses designed by L'Wren Scott roaming a tented area.
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Azad takes on-screen smoking row to Khurshid
India's health minister defends regulations that add on-screen warnings to movies with smoking.
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Hollywood hooks young on smoking
Public health agency calls on Ontario Film Review Board to rate smoking movies 18A.
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Viggo Mortensen
I note with approval slight nicotine stains on his teeth, a courageous act of defiance for an American film star.
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Smoking: Marilyn star Michelle Williams likes it not
Michelle smoked as little as she could even though Marilyn smoked 'a lot.'
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'Agneepath' first film to run anti-smoking scroll
Films with smoking scenes ... will now have to face cuts or run a statutory warning.
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Preventing youth smoking
UCSF's Stan Glantz and Pam Ling discuss U.S. Surgeon General's report.
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Should movies with smoking be rated 'R'?
The film industry has known about the relationship between smoking in movies and kid smoking for years.
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Should smoking trigger an 'R' rating?
PG-13 films account for nearly two-thirds of the smoking scenes adolescents see on the big screen.
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On-screen smoking may turn teens on to cigarettes
If smoking automatically earned an R rating, the number of youngsters who try cigarettes would drop by 18%.
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