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Article: Movie smoking causes teen smoking?: 'Porky's' failed to help that much with Jessica Pagasch
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 26, 2007
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PEOPLE look cool when they smoke. That long, confident pause on
the inhale. The ability to make smoke billow forth from inside their
bodies.
Who's going to argue with someone gesturing with a laser pointer
that's on fire? The only thing that could make smoking look cooler is
if they made cigarettes that smoke tiny cigarettes.
That's why movies show people smoking and doing other cool things
like killing people and sleeping around, and not guys typing their
newspaper columns. Especially if they move their lips while typing.
And don't wear pants.
But a group of decidedly uncool people - people at Harvard - want
to get rid of smoking in movies. A report delivered to the Motion
Picture ...