BEHIND CLOSED SET:
HOLLYWOOD’S ROMANCE WITH TOBACCO EXPOSED

 

 · The Beginning

· Tobacco & Hollywood

· Product Placement

· Hollywood Casualties

· Conclusion

· Quick Facts

· Key Messages

· Get Involved

· Powerful Web Links

· Send Letters

· References

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Powerful Web Links:

www.realitycheckny.com
Here you will be able to find out exactly what Reality Check is up to and write letters asking Hollywood decision makers to eliminate smoking from all G, PG and PG-13 movies.

www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu
Smoke Free Movies is a project started by Dr. Stanton Glantz, a professor at the University of California San Francisco to raise the awareness of tobacco prevalence in Hollywood. Here you will find all the information about from photos to scientific research on the subject.

www.saclung.org/thumbs
Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down! This group of teens is taking on Hollywood one movie review at a time. Their Web site will alert visitors to the top 10 movies of the week that contain smoking and rate them according to how much smoking and how smoking was presented.

www.screenit.com
This site is known as a resource for parents to help them determine what movies they will allow their children to see. We can use this site to help us determine if there is smoking in a movie before you review it and decide if it should be used for a STOMP.

www.mpaa.org
The Motion Picture Association of America. Use this site to review what the movie ratings mean and to keep track of any changes in their policy they may make due to this initiative.

www.wga.org
The Writer’s Guild of America.

www.dga.org
The Director’s Guild of America. Use this site to confirm the address for writing letters, and to find a director. It’s easy to do a search in the Director’s Directory.

www.sag.org
Screen Actors’ Guild of America. Check this site out to find actors. Click on Contact SAG, and then click on Department Contact Information. Calls the number listed for “Actors to Locate” and ask for the agent information for specific actors.

www.contactanycelebrity.com
This site is a pay service. However, if you sign up for the weekly e-mails you will receive a free list of actors in newly released films and their contact info.

www.movies.com
This site will tell you all about currently released movies as well as movies in pre and post production. Find out who is in the movie, who directed it, what the history of the film is in the “We Heard – pre-release Buzz section.”

www.IMDB.com
This is also a great source for information about any film.

www.hollywood.com
This is another great source for information about any film.