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1/5 Its #Oscars time, so this Sunday Spotlight is all about the movies 
-> Congress took cigarette commercials off tv 50 years ago but tobacco is still a presence in movies. During awards season studios go all out to promote some of the smokiest movies.https://www.oneidadispatch.com/news/local-news/local-youths-encourage-hollywood-to-helposcarquit/article_c24389f2-3701-11e9-a545-a3b4049741af.html …
2/5 Together, this year's crop of Oscar-nominated movies have delivered 7.5 billion tobacco exposures to domestic moviegoers, according to researchers at UCSF, with billions more to come when the films debut on the nation's on-demand and streaming services. 
4/5 "Even biographical movies are packed with exaggerated smoking. Extras smoking and fictional characters added to these films outnumber the actual, historical smokers by 5 to 1 this year. That's not authentic, and exploits young and pushes kids toward the tobacco industry."
3/5 "Even the US Surgeon General has said movies with smoking cause kids to smoke in real life," said Skyler Camp, 14, from Morrisville. "Also state attorneys general have told the movie studios that every time they release a movie with smoking, they knowingly harm children.”
5/5 Reality Check, which has made confronting on-screen tobacco promotion a part of its public health mission since 2003, is joining groups around the country using the #HelpOscarQuit hashtag to ask big media companies to keep smoking out of the movies kids see most.
Yet there are no regulations for e-cigarette ads on TV or on the internet! In fact, kids have seen Vaping ads on educational websites they use through school! Unconscionable! We need your leadership to close these inexplicable loopholes!#NoNicoteens
May I urge you and other parents to worry about your own children...not the "generic," emotion-laden term of children. Thank you, and good day.
Smoking, drinking, and drug use are often used in place of struggling to write good lines. It's easier to light up than to think.
Big Tobacco is the essence of corruption. And they've been enabled by the Best Congress that $ can buy. I wrote about this in my new book: Enemy No. 1, Waging The War On Secondhand Smoke. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NLFBLGF .
50 years after Congress stopped Big Tobacco's cigarette commercials, can't we all agree that kid-rated movies and TV shows shouldn't push tobacco addiction, disability and death?
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