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Hollywood: Quit Pushing Smoking on Our Kids!

Target: Motion Picture Association of America
Sponsored by: AMA - Alliance
Research indicates that Hollywood recruits close to 390,000 new youth smokers each year. That's nearly enough new smokers to replace each and every American who dies of a tobacco-related illness during the same year!

Youths who are highly exposed to smoking in movies are three times more likely to start smoking than teens with little exposure. Luckily, the problem of tobacco in Hollywood has an answer: break the ties between the entertainment and tobacco industries by demanding that future youth-rated films be tobacco-free. Let the Motion Picture Association of America know that you want movies featuring on-screen smoking to be "R" rated!
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 5,000
 
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Dear [Decision maker],

I am writing you today out of concern for the health and well-being of America's youth. Hollywood has a hold on young people the way that no other medium does. Youths, with the highest exposure to smoking in movies, are nearly three times more likely to start smoking themselves.

Smoking in movies is the most powerful pro-tobacco influence on kids today, accounting for more than one-third of all youths who start smoking. Add to this the knowledge that two out of every three G-, PG- and PG-13-rated movies include on-screen smoking or tobacco imagery.

Movies featuring on-screen smoking or tobacco imagery should be rated "R" unless it is determined that the presentation of tobacco clearly reflects the dangers of tobacco use or accurately portrays the smoking behavior of a historical figure.

[Your comment here]

Please do your part to end the influence of Big Tobacco on America's youth.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]
We signed the “Hollywood: Quit Pushing Smoking on Our Kids!” petition:
# 100:
1:23 pm PDT, Jun 13, Fred Thiess, California
# 99:
1:15 pm PDT, Jun 13, Denise Santoro, New York
# 98:
1:14 pm PDT, Jun 13, Connie Johnson, Iowa
# 97:
1:12 pm PDT, Jun 13, NICK DAVIS, Canada
# 96:
1:12 pm PDT, Jun 13, Danielle LeBoeuf, Florida
All I can think to say is...DUH!
# 95:
1:04 pm PDT, Jun 13, Dorothy Bammerlin, Texas
# 94:
1:01 pm PDT, Jun 13, Gary B, California
# 93:
12:58 pm PDT, Jun 13, Brian Guadagno, New Jersey
# 92:
12:47 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 91:
12:45 pm PDT, Jun 13, Ashley Lillard, Alaska
# 90:
12:44 pm PDT, Jun 13, Jeff Stamper, California
# 89:
12:27 pm PDT, Jun 13, Patrick Garrison, New York
# 88:
12:24 pm PDT, Jun 13, Alfonzo Walker, Tennessee
# 87:
12:23 pm PDT, Jun 13, Helen Bearden, Texas
# 86:
12:22 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, California
# 85:
12:20 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, California
# 84:
12:16 pm PDT, Jun 13, Fabio Roccaforte, Italy
# 83:
12:16 pm PDT, Jun 13, Liette Pedraza-Tucker, New York
# 82:
12:09 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, Texas
# 81:
12:04 pm PDT, Jun 13, Suzanne Warner, Indiana
# 79:
12:02 pm PDT, Jun 13, Susan Stuve, Arizona
# 78:
11:59 am PDT, Jun 13, Kimberly Morris, California
# 77:
11:56 am PDT, Jun 13, Richard Schuman, California
# 76:
11:45 am PDT, Jun 13, Teana Milleson, Kansas
# 75:
11:45 am PDT, Jun 13, Johannah Casey-Doecke, Indiana
Only a fool would smoke. Who wants to slowly suffocate in total agony on the day of their death?
# 74:
11:45 am PDT, Jun 13, Franziska Eber, Germany
# 73:
11:42 am PDT, Jun 13, Gene Ulmer, California
# 72:
11:38 am PDT, Jun 13, Kimberly Clark, Oklahoma
# 71:
11:32 am PDT, Jun 13, Karen Williams, California
# 70:
11:26 am PDT, Jun 13, Patricia Nigro, Florida
They need to start doing this with the drinking too, young people follow examples & too many are dying in car accidents because of alcohol.
# 69:
11:26 am PDT, Jun 13, Kelsi Singer, Missouri
Smoking should never be encouraged in kids, the health problems for them and our nation are way too great.
# 68:
11:24 am PDT, Jun 13, Debbie Walker, Arizona
Please stop pushing smoking on our children because it is a dirty, smelly habit, and children deserve to have healthy lungs with the damage that smoking does to those who do smoke.
# 67:
11:22 am PDT, Jun 13, Carrie Needler, Indiana
# 66:
11:22 am PDT, Jun 13, Stacy Vrabec, California
# 65:
11:21 am PDT, Jun 13, Margaret Tollner, California
# 64:
11:18 am PDT, Jun 13, Jisoo Kim, California
It should definitely be required to make movies featuring smoking R-rated. If that seems kind of harsh, there should be a kind of "Clean Verison" where the tobacco and cigarettes are somehow edited out.
# 63:
11:17 am PDT, Jun 13, Linda Jumper, Ohio
As someone who has been smoking for 51 years, I think anything to discourage smoking should be a priority. I have emphysema and have to use oxygen. I am trying to quit for the umpteenth time and I will keep trying.
# 62:
11:11 am PDT, Jun 13, Ralf Schuetz, Colorado
Are you guys getting greased by the tobacco industry aka Kraft and such? A lot of cities have smoking bans in restaurants and public places and you people go retro and promote smoking? That's spineless.
# 61:
11:09 am PDT, Jun 13, Dona Engelhardt, Colorado
# 60:
11:06 am PDT, Jun 13, Leonardo Sarli, Virginia
# 59:
11:02 am PDT, Jun 13, Art Felsinger, Arizona
# 58:
11:02 am PDT, Jun 13, Tait Mandler, New Jersey
# 57:
11:02 am PDT, Jun 13, Gina Talbot, Texas
# 56:
11:01 am PDT, Jun 13, Marletia Craft, Indiana
I have never smoked, but just by working around heavy cigarette smoke, I have trouble with my lungs.
# 55:
10:53 am PDT, Jun 13, Robin Poling, New Mexico
# 54:
10:51 am PDT, Jun 13, Angie Sims, South Carolina
# 53:
10:50 am PDT, Jun 13, Elizabeth Lawler, California
# 51:
10:49 am PDT, Jun 13, Denise Janssen Eager, Wisconsin
Please do not prey on our youths' desire to 'be cool' &, consequently smoke to attain that elusive standard. They deserve the right to have a smoke-free childhood.
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