Smoking In Hollywood Movies Strongly Linked To Increase In Global Youth Smoking

New research reveals how the incidence of smoking in US-made movies is influencing teenagers in countries far beyond American shores. Studies in Germany and Mexico, as well as further evidence from the United States, show a correlation between the amount of smoking imagery in films and the likelihood of young teenagers starting to smoke. — A report in the journal Pediatrics [1] confirms that U.S. films deliver billions of tobacco images to U.S. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on May 27th, 2007