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Aside from violent and sexually explicit content, the study found that smoking, which is not a criterion for MPAA rating, appeared in 79 percent of films while 93 percent of films had instances of alcohol, tobacco or drug use, including 51 percent of G-rated movies...
Kimberly M. Thompson, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Kevin M. Haninger, a PhD candidate at HSPH, were invited to speak on the popular sports news program for their research on the content and rating systems used for video games, in the last of a four-part series on the medium broadcast by “SportsCenter...
...show, the two said that these products—which were given an E (everyone) rating, meant to denote everyone ages six and up—contained inappropriate material, not listed on the content descriptors on the cover of the package and included material that was not a part of the sports themselves...
...violence, even though there weren’t any labels on the video game cover, and according to the study, “that games may reward players for their violent actions.” The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is supposed to put a list of content descriptors on the cover of its video games, in addition to just the simple rating...
...necessarily objecting to the creation of the game per se,” Haninger said. “It’s just that these games are being marketed for an age group other than the content would suggest...