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New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
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 ...
Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movie s as advertising vehicles ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

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 ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
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 ...

Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Smoking in Movies

William Sorrell, incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General, told a group of advertisers and agency ...
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 ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the ...
But anti- smoking activists argue that 60-plus years after that classic movie was made—long before the Surgeon General issued a warning on the dangers of tobacco—it's time for movie s to lose the smoke ...

Congress Urges American Film Industry to Reduce Smoking in Movies

The agency also says 4400 American teenagers begin smoking each day ...
They are concerned about studies showing that children are more likely to smoke if they see it in the cinema, but Hollywood is resisting the pressure in the ...
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 ...

Major Networks Decline to Air Truth's Latest Ad

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 ...
The dispute involves the their prevalent cigarette product placement in film and in TV trailers for movie s after the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which forbid paid placement ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
Dartmouth University pediatrician Madeline Dalton sees a link between these statistics ...

Tobacco Makers Want Cigarettes Cut from Films

The American Legacy Foundation's latest "Connect truth" TV spot recently took to the airwaves but will not be seen by viewers of Fox, CBS and ABC programming because ...
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 ...
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 ...
William Sorrell, incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General, told a group of advertisers and agency ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

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 ...
and a claim that the regulations violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution ...
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 ...

Mexico City's Smoking Population on the Rise as City Implements Tough Anti-Smoking Law

While smoking is losing popularity in the United States, it's on the rise in Mexico, where more than one-fourth of the population Mexico City passed a tough new no- smoking law, which says they can't light up in banks, hospitals, public buses, city offices, movie houses or concert halls ...
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 ...
Cheryl Healton, ALF president and CEO, said she may instruct the foundation's attorneys to seek the Federal Trade Commission's involvement in the matter ...

Washington Post: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes

And these facts are well publicized, indeed unavoidable: Well-funded anti- smoking campaigns have succeeded in painting the once-glamorized habit as dirty, smelly, costly and unsexy ...
Others said they'd developed a universe of habits in which lighting up plays a key role ...
Why? We put the question to several smokers, particularly people you might expect to know better, interviewing them first via e-mail, then by phone; their comments here come from both sorts of contacts ...
You hear them ask the salesclerk for a pack of Marlboro Lights, and you wonder: Who are these people ...

Anti-Smoking Fight is Going Global

We were not out to endorse their habit, or to preach (although we'd much rather be referring them to the Center for Tobacco Cessation at www ...
Others said they'd developed a universe of habits in which lighting up plays a key role ...
You hear them ask the salesclerk for a pack of Marlboro Lights, and you wonder: Who are these people ...
But that Thursday, as you sat at your desk and stared at your computer, anti- smoking activists all over the world were getting together and trumpeting their cause ...