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Article: Smoking imagery increasingly prevalent in movies, report finds.(report on adverse effects of movies)
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- The Nation's Health
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- September 1, 2006
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Smoking in the movies has been rapidly increasing since the 1990s, particularly in youth-rated films, and continues to be a causal factor for children who begin using tobacco, according to a report released in July by the American Legacy Foundation.
The report, presented at the 13th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Washington, D.C., found that from 1996 to 2004, tobacco was depicted in a majority of the U.S. live-action films, including more than 75 percent of the youth-rated films and nearly 90 percent of the R-rated films.
"These depictions actually kill people," said Cheryl Healton, MD, president and chief executive officer of the American ...