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• Outreach tools | Reach parents, policymakers and the media companies with these up-to-date tools. Check back regularly for new additions.
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• Smokefree Movies Backgrounder | 2017 | Everything you need to put together a powerful letter, handout or petition.
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FROM OUR NEW YORK PARTNERS...
Signing a petition in Albany NY, February 2018 
• Smokefree Media Guide | The organizing handbook for New York's statewide Reality Check youth mobilization program. (Updated health statistics here.)
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MORE RESOURCES
Supplementary fact sheets
• Top numbers | Four key statistics make the case for the R-rating. Full citations for the research behind the numbers.
• State subsidies for movies with smoking | Data updated weekly
Recent reports
• Smoking in top-grossing US movies | 2018 | Most smokers are now found in biographical dramas. But most of them never existed.
• Smoking in top-grossing US movies: Archive | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
• Tobacco product placement and its reporting to the Federal Trade Commission | 2016 | Tobacco companies might have misled the FTC years ago. Are they being honest now?
• California film subsidies and on-screen smoking: Resolving the policy conflict | 2012 | State film tax credits fund thousands of tobacco deaths and and trigger hundreds of millions in medical costs.
• Film-Flam: How MPAA/NATO movie labels hide the biggest media risk to kids | 2010 | Do the MPAA's rare "smoking" labels protect kids? Or cause parents to underestimate the risk?
