{"id":2776,"date":"2009-07-19T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:15:10","slug":"smoking-in-movies-is-at-its-highest-since-%e2%80%9860s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/smoking-in-movies-is-at-its-highest-since-%e2%80%9860s\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking in movies is at its highest since \u201860s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>If there\u2019s anwhere anyone can advertise anything, it\u2019s &#8216;Variety&#8217; and &#8216;The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;. But there\u2019s one ad neither of the Hollywood trade publications will run the latest broad side from Smoke Free Movies, a health advocacy group that\u2019s been at the forefront of a no-holds-barred campaign against the proliferation of cigarette smoking in movies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Led by the U. of California (UCSF) School of Medicine\u2019s Professor Stanton Glantz, Smoke Free Movies has run ads in publications including The New York Times detailing what it calls Hollywood\u2019s \u201csordid history of trading cash, goods and publicity\u201d for glamorizing smoking. Citing studies that found smoking on screen today more frequent than since the early 1960s, the organization advocates giving an R rating to any movie that features tobacco use. Variety ran the organization\u2019s earlier ads, but rejected the latest ad, which attacked Miramax\u2019s, In the Bedroom for \u2018gratuitously promoting Marlboro brand cigarettes\u2019. Glantz says V<em>ariety<\/em> never complained about the ad until an ABC News Reporter called Miramax for a comment. \u201cThe next day variety said they wouldn\u2019t run the ad,\u201d says Glantz. \u201cI have no doubt Miramax demanded they pull the ads. People say that when we criticize smoking in movies that we\u2019re interfering with free speech, but then Miramax uses its economic muscle to basically shut me up.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>The ad. controversy highlights a troublesome issue. In an era in which tobacco use is on the decline in the USA, why is cigarette smoking on the rise\u00a0 in Hollywood films? Glantz\u2019s ads are often obnoxious but they make a valid point. Studies show that kids who see stars smoking in films are more likely to start smoking. If every movie with smoking was made to have an A rating, shrinking the studios access to young moviegoers, 99% of the smoking in movies would evaporate.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: Patrick Goldstein(excerpt) LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 23,2002<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s anwhere anyone can advertise anything, it\u2019s &#8216;Variety&#8217; and &#8216;The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;. But there\u2019s one ad neither of the Hollywood trade publications will run the latest broad side from Smoke Free Movies, a health advocacy group that\u2019s been at the forefront of a no-holds-barred campaign against the proliferation of cigarette smoking in movies. Led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}