By Liz Neporent
The evidence is pretty clear that smoking in movies influences lighting up in real life, with studies suggesting that kids in particular can be more likely to take up the habit after seeing stars who smoke.
But even though smoking is probably less socially acceptable in the U.S. than ever before, we still see gorgeous men and women make the habit look glamorous by lighting up on the big screen. (Hello, have you seen the trailer for Gangster Squad? Emma Stone exhales a plume of smoke just as Ryan Gosling tries to seduce her, probably launching more than a few new teen smokers.)
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The evidence is pretty clear that smoking in movies influences lighting up in real life, with studies suggesting that kids in particular can be more likely to take up the habit after seeing stars who smoke.
But even though smoking is probably less socially acceptable in the U.S. than ever before, we still see gorgeous men and women make the habit look glamorous by lighting up on the big screen. (Hello, have you seen the trailer for Gangster Squad? Emma Stone exhales a plume of smoke just as Ryan Gosling tries to seduce her, probably launching more than a few new teen smokers.)
More from Health.com:
15 Ways Smoking Ruins Your Looks
Coffee, Smoking, and More That Can Make Arthritis Worse
The 10 States Most Addicted to Smoking
But it's not just in movies that portray smokers in a historically accurate setting. In fact, the worst movie...
- 12/12/2012
- by Amanda L. Chan
- Huffington Post
While Avatar continues to pack ‘em in at cinemas across the globe, the furore surrounding its use of cigarette smoking similarly refuses to go away. The character charged with bringing the blockbusting 3D adventure into disrepute is Dr Grace Augustine (as played by Sigourney Weaver), a scientist who lights up in a number of scenes, greatly upsetting Stanton A. Glantz, the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. The organisation, which fronts the Smoke Free Movies campaign, has long opposed smoking in movies, believing that onscreen lighting up encourages impressionable audience members to follow suit and has been so outraged by Dr Grace’s nicotine habit in Avatar that it’s launching an aggressive ad campaign against it.
- 1/13/2010
- Boxwish.com
It was obviously going too swimmingly well for James Cameron and his big screen return with blockbusting behemoth, Avatar. The sci-fi epic starring Sam Worthington was happily breaking box office records galore, getting people bigging up 3D cinema and earning some Oscar hype, but now the inevitable backlash has begun, taking the unexpected form of cigarettes. Yes, scenes starring Sigourney Weaver’s scientist Dr Grace Augustine taking a drag have caused outrage with health experts, Stanton A. Glantz, the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education complaining that, “This is like someone just put a bunch of plutonium in the water supply,” on the damage done to his Smoke Free Movies initiative. However, never one to sit back and take it, Cameron’s come back fighting.
- 1/5/2010
- Boxwish.com
Now that Avatar is way beyond being a certified hit amongst moviegoers and critics, James Cameron.s got to take flack from someone and that someone is Stanton A. Glantz of the Smoke Free Movies Initiative. As reported by the New York Times (via BlackBook), Glantz announced that his organization will wage war through an information campaign targeting the movie.s pro-smoking message. Wait, when is there smoking in Avatar? It took a serious double take to recall that Sigourney Weaver.s environmental scientist lights one up during the film. Just a couple of drags earned Avatar a .black lung. from Scenesmoker.org, which rates films based on the inclusion of cancer sticks. Also given .black lung. status is Avatar.s fellow holiday moneymaker, Sherlock Holmes. Cameron isn.t taking the issue too seriously. In a statement delivered via e-mail he said Weaver.s Grace Augustine is not meant to...
- 1/5/2010
- cinemablend.com
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