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Doctors Seek 'R' Rating for Smoking Scenes in Movies

Others said they'd developed a universe of habits in which lighting up plays a key role ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...
Note to Hollywood producers: If you put a cigarette in your star's mouth, you might be seeing an "R" on your movie ...

Study: Movies Cause Children to Smoke

And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
Marlboro maker Philip Morris USA didn't request the plug, but it would seem to be a welcome publicity windfall, particularly now that cigarettes can no longer be advertised on billboards, television or through product placements ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which raised the price of cigarettes by 50 cents a pack, may make them cut back on the amount they smoke ...
According to Dalton, those teens were four times more likely to start smoking if they were in the group that saw many movie s with smoking than those in the group that saw the fewest movie s with smoking ...

Cigar Smoking is Up Among Children

She said that many of the smokers onscreen were rebellious or tough -- exactly the kind of characters that teens traditionally find appealing ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
government's disease tracking agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says about two-thirds of today's films depict tobacco use, including those intended for young audiences ...
He's been smoking them for more than a year and he doesn't plan on stopping ...

Movie Stars Smoking On Screen Encourages Teen Smoking

If that is the case, then one could argue that the stars themselves are responsible for encouraging teens to smoke, and should be held accountable for that, Pierce noted ...
Investigators found that girls who said their favorite celebrity was someone who had smoked in at least two recent movie s were almost twice as likely to start smoking within the next three years as girls whose favorite stars did not smoke in films ...
government's disease tracking agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says about two-thirds of today's films depict tobacco use, including those intended for young audiences ...

Fewer Children Smoke When Parents Make R-Rated Movies Off Limits

The law forces bars and restaurants to set aside 30 percent of their tables for patrons who don't want to inhale cigarette fumes ...
Others said they'd developed a universe of habits in which lighting up plays a key role ...
Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...
But the study could not demonstrate a cause-and-effect link between smoking and movie viewing because it was based on statistical correlations ...

Movie Idols Send Strong Smoke Signals to Teens

If that is the case, then one could argue that the stars themselves are responsible for encouraging teens to smoke, and should be held accountable for that, Pierce noted ...
WOMENSENEWS)--Laws prohibit paid tobacco-product placement in movie s and tobacco advertising to children ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
and a claim that the regulations violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution ...

Study: Smoking in Movies Catalyst for Adolescent Smoking

William Sorrell, incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General, told a group of advertisers and agency ...
We undertook a prospective study to ascertain whether exposure to smoking in movie s predicts smoking initiation ...
9 instances of tobacco use per hour in films released in 2000, up from a comparable measurement of 7 ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
When Pierce and his team first contacted teens in 1996, the most popular stars among teen girls were Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio ...

Editorial: Fear ignited effort to quit smoking

Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...
and sat next to a guy who was to become my best friend at the office ...
Favorite actors for boys were Pamela Anderson, Sandra Bullock and Demi Moore ...
After all, half the movie stars in those days smoked cigarettes, using them as props ...
Somehow, I must have slipped into those five percent who quit on their own, because I haven't ...

Santa Monica City Council to Consider Extending Smoking Ban

We are criminalizing people who smoke when it is still a legal substance," O'Connor said ...
Consider a step process so that people can catch up with it," Hooker said ...
All available evidence indicated, from other cities and other countries, that smoking regulations almost across the board tend to, if anything, increase business and popularity of a location," said Deputy City Attorney Adam Radinsky ...
Wes Hooker, owner of the Laconda del Lago restaurant on the Third Street Promenade, told the City Council the ordinance would "be a shocker and create a problem in the tourist population ...