Movies Still To Blame For Smoking
Friday, April 30, 2010 - 14:11
in Psychology & Sociology
Despite significant declines in the cinematic depiction of smoking over the past 20 years, researchers writing in Thorax complain that tobacco imagery is still relatively common in UK films rated suitable for children and young teens. The findings suggest that movie ratings should take depictions of smoking into account, the authors say. Researchers analyzed the occurrence of depictions of tobacco use, including brand appearances and smoking paraphernalia, for periods of at least five minutes (tobacco intervals) in the 15 most commercially successful films screened in the UK between 1989 and 2008. read more