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...think he did a very good job of putting the last nail in the coffin on the science issue,” said Stanton A. Glantz, the director of Smoke Free Movies, an organization that promotes reducing smoking in films...
...Glantz objected that the changes did not go far enough...
...MPAA did not adopt the reforms Bloom mentioned, and Glantz criticized Bloom’s reaction to Thursday’s announcement as overly conciliatory...
...Stanton Glantz, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and founder of the Smoke-free Movies Action Network (smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu) calls the ads, which appeared in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, "preposterous." No tobacco company, he notes, has asked for a ban in movies rated PG or PG-13 movies, which teenagers favor. Meanwhile, a mandatory R rating for movies that feature smoking has been endorsed by the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association among other groups. And earlier this year, 41 state attorneys general again wrote motion picture studios renewing their call...
Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life, argues Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies" newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured 50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past...