Word: smoked
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...they can be found, sifted from the supporters who hide them, feed them and join their ranks. This fight is likely to be patchy, frustrating and drawn out. "The world again sent the firewood for fighting in Afghanistan," says Hajji Mullah Sahib. "And sure enough it ignited. The smoke of this fire will linger for a long time...
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...
...been going door to door among the studios. They hit the honchos with hard facts: a million teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met with executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran, "they said, 'Smoking is not in any of our scripts.' But then they called the next day and said, 'We looked, and it's everywhere.'" Karen Kehela, co-chairman of Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking out of one script after the meeting, "but the actor insisted on smoking," she says. In fact...
Next week the American Lung Association will give its Hackademy Award to Sissy Spacek and In the Bedroom for using Marlboros throughout the film. Dishonorable Mentions will go to Charlie's Angels and Save the Last Dance--smoke-filled movies aimed at adolescents. "Teens imitate onscreen behavior," says Doran. And it's not enough to make the good guy a nonsmoker because "bad guys are cool...
When Carmen emerges in a seductive, red-frilled dress, she clashes with the environs. This Carmen looks as though she stepped straight from the streets of Seville, not from the smoke and gassing of a street riot...