Smoking Occurs in 75 Percent of Movie Hits
Posted on: Thursday, 21 August 2008, 15:15 CDT
Cigarette smoking is pervasive in movies, occurring in three-quarters or more of box-office hits, U.S. government and non-profit officials said.
Identifiable cigarette brands appear in about one-third of movies, the 684-page National Cancer Institute report said. The report provides the most current and comprehensive analysis of more than 1,000 scientific studies on the role of the media in encouraging and discouraging tobacco use.
Much tobacco advertising targets the psychological needs of adolescents, such as popularity, peer acceptance and positive self-image and the advertising creates the perception that smoking will satisfy these needs, leaders from the federal government and the nation's public health community said at a news conference in Washington.
The report concludes that mass media campaigns can reduce smoking, especially when combined with other tobacco control strategies. However, youth smoking prevention campaigns sponsored by the tobacco industry have been generally ineffective and may actually have increased youth smoking, the report said.
The tobacco industry spent $13.5 billion on cigarette advertising and promotion in the United States in 2005, the report said.
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Source: United Press International
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User Comments (3)
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Posted by Smokey Joe on 08/28/2008, 08:37 Hundreds of thousands die all the time, from car accidents and just falling down in the wrong place. So we should ban driving and walking as well. Bottom line, you are going to die from something. Prolonging your life for a little more time with the walker just doesn't cut it for me. Let people live their lives. I'm an ex-smoker for 10 years by the way. I choose to quit. I do smoke a cigar now and then. |
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Posted by BreathOfFreshAir on 08/24/2008, 11:22 This is far different from airbagging, "everything". It is no accident that 'efforts' by big tobacco have proven to be less than effective in reducing teen smoking; it is because they ARE effective in the actual goal of increasing it. They sell a product that, if new today, would NEVER get on the market, and would be gone if they didn't have big wallets from which they drag politicos by the nose. Enticing Hollywood with big bucks to include their 'product' in films only serves to perpetuate a holocaust in our country, and around the world. What part of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DIE EVERY YEAR FROM THIS DO YOU NOT GET?! |
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Posted by Smokey Joe on 08/22/2008, 09:25 Wow! Seeing a movie is going to make me run right out and buy some cigerettes! You cannot put air bags on everything. Every once in while you just have to let things be. A movie is a movie, it is not real life, allow parents to be parents. The anti-smoking movement is a occupation to these people. You have won, smoking is practically banned in every forum. Let me ride my motorcycle without a helmet and smoke my cigar! |
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