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HOLLYWOOD’S ROMANCE WITH TOBACCO EXPOSED

 

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Key messages about Hollywood & Tobacco: Reality Check Strikes Again!

  • Hollywood & Tobacco: Reality Check Strikes Again! is phase two of a long-term youth-action project developed by Reality Check to combat Hollywood’s practice of putting smoking and tobacco products in movies.
  • Hollywood & Tobacco: Reality Check Strikes Again! long-term goal is to have Hollywood agree to remove smoking and tobacco products from all G, PG and PG-13 movies.
  • Teens who watch their favorite celebrities smoke are two and half times more likely to pick up a cigarette them selves.
  • There’s more smoking in Hollywood movies in 2003 than at any time since 1950.
  • Studies from Dartmouth Medical School, American Legacy Foundation, Mass PIRG and many more are the basis of this project. The studies can be found at www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu.
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