Cleon
11th March 2004, 10:05 AM
This is really, really stupid.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/11/film.hollywood.smoking.ap/index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- If Nicolas Cage lights a cigarette in a movie, Hollywood's ratings board should respond as if he used a profanity, according to authors of a new study that criticizes glamorous images of smoking in movies rated for children under 17.
Nearly 80 percent of movies rated PG-13 feature some form of tobacco use, while 50 percent of G and PG rated films depict smoking, said Stanton Glantz, co-author of the study, which examined 775 U.S. movies over the past five years.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/11/film.hollywood.smoking.ap/index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- If Nicolas Cage lights a cigarette in a movie, Hollywood's ratings board should respond as if he used a profanity, according to authors of a new study that criticizes glamorous images of smoking in movies rated for children under 17.
Nearly 80 percent of movies rated PG-13 feature some form of tobacco use, while 50 percent of G and PG rated films depict smoking, said Stanton Glantz, co-author of the study, which examined 775 U.S. movies over the past five years.