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Americans are 19% healthier now than in 1990, according to the United Health Foundation. Fewer people smoke; more are immunized. But before we drink to our health, keep in mind that as a nation, we're also 110% fatter, and 19% more of us have no health insurance. Plus, healthiness varies dramatically by state. In the map below, each state's score is based on assessments of 12 health determinants, such as child poverty, and six outcomes, such as infant mortality. This year--as in 10 past years--Minnesota is No. 1. The question, the authors ask: Now that...
...dimensions would make Sir Mix-a-Lot salivate. “I Luv It” is almost enough to send me to Atlanta and start selling crack. The video opens with the star cruising around the streets of the ATL in his Lambo, blowing out clouds of thick smoke. Jeezy and Angel are found in pool halls, outside graffitied, dilapidated buildings, at a warehouse concert, and even playing cee-low. Barbershops and prisons are subtly snuck in, making the total number of scenes somewhere above a dozen. Everything comes up roses for Jeezy: despite his busy lifestyle, his khakis...
...screen smoking has been implicated as the cause of 390,000 new teen smokers every year," says Nita Maddox, AMA Alliance president. "It is estimated that 120,000 of this group of new teen smokers will eventually die from tobacco use." The Alliance is launching a parent-to-parent grassroots campaign to make future movies rated G, PG and PG-13 smoke-free - an effort that could reverberate in other foreign countries where U.S films dominate and where, Maddox says, "the tobacco industry is hunting its next generation...
...defensive. Last month, Philip Morris USA, whose products are reported to account for 71% of the brands featured in movies since 1990, launched an advertising campaign asking entertainment industry officials to voluntarily eliminate its products in all movies and television shows "You have the power to help prevent youth smoking - just by losing one little prop," says one of the ads. Jennifer Hunter, a Philip Morris USA vice president, said in announcing the campaign: "Movies have the power to amuse, delight, teach and inspire. However, some studies suggest they may also influence a child's decision to smoke...
...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...