Movies influence teenagers to smoke

Two new studies by Dartmouth Medical School pediatrician researchers underscore the significant impact that movies have in influencing teens to smoke. Science Daily reports.

"The studies assessed adolescents aged 10-14 years exposure to 534 popular contemporary box-office hits.

The studies show that movies deliver billions of smoking impressions to American teens; and that even teens outside the U.S. are affected by smoking images in films distributed internationally by American studios.

... Based on the number of U.S. adolescents seeing each movie and the smoking contained in each, the researchers estimated that these movies delivered 13.9 billion gross smoking impressions." (cough,cough)

emily | 10:42 AM | The impact of TV series on society |
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