120000 Lives a Year

Video highlights one of the most urgent health challenges of the 21st Century, from the history of paid product placement to the May, 2004 U.S. Senate hearing, scientific research confirming the problem, growing youth activism, and the reasonable, effective four-step Smoke Free Movies solution endorsed by leading health groups.

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[NicholasJBrown]

quit your crying - if i want to smoke i can - if i want to smoke where alcohol is sold - i should fucking be able to -

if your kid smokes because your kid seen it in a movie - dont blame the movies - blame the PARENTS..............

[aproctor1]

I have to say this is one of the stupidest films i have ever seen, does anyone actually believe smoking in movies causes more deaths than car accidents?

[sexboywonder]

we non smokers will " mind our own business" when you put a plastic bag over your head when you busily pollute public terrain. frankly, what you cant wrap around YOUR head is the fact that what you do to your body IS your buisness, what you do to oters is not

[SouthboundAtl]

And the message "Smokefree Movies" is givings is "Smoking is an R'Rated activity", you are too young to even watch someone smoke in the cinema. Great ploy to discourage kids from wanting to act grown up by smoking eh? Sounds more pro-smoking then anti-smoking to me. I can just see Brer Tobacco Industry saying oh please Brer Glantz, don't throw me into that "R-Rated Movie" patch.

[unklscrufy]

Of course cigarette smoking can cause diseases. But the alternative to smoking isn't eternal life free from disease. I understand that anti-smokers can't wrap their brains around this, but I smoke because I enjoy it. Will it kill me? I have no idea. Something certainly will, I'm relatively certain of that. In the meantime, they can mind their own business and I'll mind mine.

[Angela Repasy]

Anti-Tobacco is trying to brainwash kids? You are joking, right? Do you not think that cigarettes kill? I have proof eight times over in my family. Maybe if you would have watched my mother-in-law die in front of your eyes from emphysema you might feel differently. Cigarettes shorten your life AND they reduce the quality of your life. Personally, I think a person who smokes is hates it as much as anyone else, but their addiction wont allow them to say otherwise!

[SouthboundAtl]

And what is the date of these "documents"? 18 Oct 1979? Or so it says in the opening clip of this "Film".

Will the makers of this film certify they didn't received any money from Big Pharma or it's major shareholders?

Telling kids smoking is an "R-Rated" activity and they can't watch is a glaring dare to get them to try it.

[patronymic]

The documents show the OVERSEAS subsidiaries of Philip, Morris and what is now BAT were pursuing product placement. The MSA applies only to their DOMESTIC subsidiaries (sharp lawyers!). PM USA denies product placement; PM International doesn't. And no studio will certify that tobacco agents have not influenced the 76% of US productions since 1998 with tobacco.

[SouthboundAtl]

patronymic, those "documents" predate the Master Settlement Agreement which prohibits product placement, nice try.

But the "R-Rating" scam is being pushed by the paid lackeys of Big Pharma. By telling younger teens they can't even watch an adult smoke until they are grown up, is only going to encourage these kids to start smoking. Another crop to sell patches and gum too. Quite a brilliant marketing coop while blaming the other guy.

[SouthboundAtl]

Nice try patronymic, but those "documents" predate the MSA. Face it, the "R-Rating" is a scam now being pushed by big pharma and it's paid lackeys to promote "smoking as the thing that makes you an adult." aka an "R-rated activity". Product placement was strictly prohibited under the terms of the Master Settlement Agreement, as was limits on sports sponsorships and other advertising sources.