Smoking kids' movies
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
Kids who watch movies with more smoking are more likely to become smokers. But three of six major studios have policies to reduce scenes of smoking in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. At the University of California, San Francisco, researcher Stanton Glantz says smoking scenes from three studios fell 96 percent from 2005 to 2010:
``The fact that there's a lot less smoking in movies now than there was in 2005 means that fewer kids are starting to smoke as a result of the movies.'' (8 seconds)
Glantz says it would be even better if smoking were R-rated so studios would leave smoking out of films for kids.
The study is in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm Ira Dreyfuss.