LOS ANGELES -- Cigar-loving Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that children need to be warned often about the health dangers of smoking, but Hollywood shouldn't feel pressured to cleanse ...
LONDON -- Youngsters who watch movies in which actors smoke a lot are three times more likely to take up the habit than those exposed to less smoking onscreen, a new study of American adolescents ...
COLUMBUS — Movie makers should not show characters smoking cigarettes in films that are marketed to children, according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and attorneys general from 37 states and ...
Smoking in the movies is back in a big way, and "tweens" and teens who see a lot of those flicks are much more likely to try smoking themselves, researchers report. Nearly 32 percent of the youngsters ...
An anti-smoking group in Liverpool wants films that feature smoking scenes to be automatically handed an 18 certificate. SmokeFree Liverpool told BBC Radio 5 Live that it had been pushing for the ...
The attorneys general of 24 states sent a letter Tuesday to Motion Picture Assn. of America president Jack Valenti saying the industry should reduce the amount of smoking in films to prevent teens ...
LOS ANGELES — Add cigarettes to the list of things that the family-friendly Walt Disney Co. has to figure out as it prepares to integrate the sharper-edged 20th Century Fox movie and television studio ...
LOS ANGELES, July 25 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday became the first major Hollywood studio to ban depictions of smoking, saying there would be no smoking in its family-oriented, ...