Team Sports Can't Compete With Films to Keep Kids From Smoking
Tobacco use in movies has pervasive influence on kids, researchers say
Posted July 6, 2009
A lot of groups have been urging that films with smoking get an R rating, he noted.
"What an R rating for smoking would do is make youth-rated films -- where kids get most of their exposure to on-screen smoking -- would be smoke-free, because the producers would leave tobacco use out of the films, because they want to sell them to kids," Glantz said.
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For more information on smoking in movies, visit the Common Sense Media.
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