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 …
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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.10 replies 12 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Surgeon_General
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@CDCTobaccoFree and others that movies cause teen smoking: 25 years of data not supportive http://tinyurl.com/y7jaydl8 .#HelpOscarQuit ?pic.twitter.com/3EMfMQLQbN
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Dr Rodu, so are you suggesting movie/ product placement doesn’t work at all? Or that somehow cigarettes are fundamentally different than all other products companies pay millions to have promoted in movies?
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