Hollywood, smoking, movies, teens
p2pnet.net news:- A mandatory R rating for smoking in movies would not “further the specific goal of providing information to parents on this issue”.
‘R’ means a movie has a Restricted rating, which in turn means anyone under 17 who wants to see it is supposed to have a parent or adult guardian with him or her.
Who made the statement? A Big Tobacco spokesman?
MPAA boss Dan Glickman.
The percentage of films, “that included even a fleeting glimpse of smoking” declined from 60 per cent to 52 per cent between July 2004 and July 2006,” Canadian Press has Glickman saying.
And, “Descriptions on sex, violence and language that accompany movie ratings now will include such phrases as “glamorized smoking” or “pervasive smoking,” Glickman said.
That should do it.
Meanwhile, ” Teenagers are significantly more likely to start smoking if they watch movies featuring stars who smoke cigarettes, and teens whose parents don’t smoke are the most likely to be swayed by actors lighting up onscreen,” said The Washington Post in 2003.
It was quoting an article in Britain’s The Lancet medical journal from June 10, 2003
“Smoking in movies is responsible for addicting 1,080 U.S. adolescents to tobacco every day, 340 of whom will die prematurely as a result,” it stated.
Old stuff?
“Two new studies by Dartmouth Medical School pediatrician researchers underscore the significant impact that movies have in influencing teens to smoke,” says Science Daily.
“The studies show that movies deliver billions of smoking impressions to American teens; and that even teens outside the U.S. are affected by smoking images in films distributed internationally by American studios.”
“Exposure to Movie Smoking Among US Adolescents Aged 10 to 14 Years: A Population Estimate” studied a “nationally representative sample of 6,522 U.S. adolescents aged 10-14 years,” and assessed their exposure to 534 popular contemporary box-office hits, says the story, going on:
Three out of four movies (74%) studied contained smoking, for a total of 3,830 smoking images. Based on the number of U.S. adolescents seeing each movie and the smoking contained in each, the researchers estimated that these movies delivered 13.9 billion gross smoking impressions.
Sixty one percent of these impressions were delivered by youth-rated movies and, ” Of the group of movies surveyed, some 30 of the movies delivered more than 100 million smoking impressions each. Many of these high-impact movies were rated PG-13.”
The, “apparently free delivery of star smoking to a young teen population is a tobacco marketer’s dream,” Science Daily has co-author Dr James Sargent stating.
Also See:
Canadian Press – U.S. board makes smoking a bigger factor in assigning film ratings, May 11, 2007
The Washington Post – Study: Teens Who See Smoking in Movies More Likely to Light Up, June 10, 2003
Science Daily – US Movies Expose Youth To Billions Of Smoking Images, May 9, 2007
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May 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
he is my idol and i wanted to be just like him
May 12th, 2007 at 12:52 am
I’m not a fan of companies who exploit other people’s lack of will power, but these attacks on smoking are just becoming too numerous lately. I’m honestly surprised that tobacco hasn’t been made illegal yet. Some people are impressionable, and some aren’t. If the movies glamorized people leaping off of tall buildings to their death, do you honestly expect to see a signifigant amount of moviewatchers doing it too?
May 12th, 2007 at 8:33 am
What a CROCK OF SHIT
May 12th, 2007 at 9:24 am
As quoted above ….(Three out of four movies (74%) studied contained smoking)…..when I went to school 3 out of 4 added up to 75% …….I challange anybody in the world…using the above statement to …show me how 74% can be achived……………if figures are used to get 74% then the statement 3 out of 4 is wrong…….or would it be ok if a million 10-14 year olds saw this and thought it to be ok to pay 74% for something that was on sale for 25% off. Seems to me the Dartmouth Medical School pediatrician researchers add like the MPAA.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I am one of those unlucky people who is allergic to cigarrete/cigar smoke. No not the pansy “oh it makes my nose itchy” pseudo-allergic, but full blown “AHG FUCK, MY EYES ARE BLEEDING!!!” allergic. How this happened is a long story, so don’t ask, but statistically more and more people are developing this kind of allergy as a direct result of the prevelance of carcinogen-filled chemically altered tobacco’s popular use over the decades.
As a direct result there are many places I cannot go, since persistent smoke haze can cause me extreme discomfort and even hospitalization if I stay in the area too long. One of those places are movie theatres, thanks to the inevitable horde of people smoking outside the entrance (and the smoke drifitn inside, to be captured and retained in the upholstry and wallpaper).
And if **I** think these new “rules” are just more MPAA gestapo BULLSHIT, then something is seriously wrong with people who are happy to go along with it!
March 16th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
In the UK it is now illegal to smoke indoors unless it’s a private home.
So presumably all smoking scenes for UK films will have to be filmed on location. The further away the better, IMHO