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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:

# 150:

2:44 pm PDT, Jun 13, Brent A. Schoenfeld, California

# 149:

2:44 pm PDT, Jun 13, Roby LaPorte, California

# 148:

2:44 pm PDT, Jun 13, Caryn Graves, California

# 147:

2:43 pm PDT, Jun 13, Randall Lloyd, Massachusetts

# 146:

2:43 pm PDT, Jun 13, Karen Glauber, New York

# 145:

2:43 pm PDT, Jun 13, Tzipora Katz, New Jersey

# 144:

2:43 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, North Carolina

# 143:

2:43 pm PDT, Jun 13, Cynthia Cason, Texas

# 142:

2:43 pm PDT, Jun 13, Kenneth Boyle, Arkansas

# 141:

2:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, Kate Sibley, California

# 140:

2:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, Lisa Thomas, California
We as adults need to set better examples for the children of this world. That includes all industries-meaning you.

# 139:

2:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, Elizabeth Dunn, New York

# 138:

2:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, Chris Scrimiger, California

# 137:

2:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, Shannon Fouts, Washington

# 136:

2:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, Barbara Bills, New York

# 135:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 13, Julie Evans, Kentucky

# 134:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 13, Bert Greenberg, California

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2:41 pm PDT, Jun 13, Terrence Nicholson, Massachusetts

# 132:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 13, Connie Marquez, California

# 131:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 13, Kathi Kibbel, Texas

# 130:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 13, Adrien Miller, Washington

# 129:

2:40 pm PDT, Jun 13, Wilson McNeary, Missouri

# 128:

2:40 pm PDT, Jun 13, Louise Holton, Maryland

# 127:

2:40 pm PDT, Jun 13, Sharlene White, New Mexico

# 126:

2:39 pm PDT, Jun 13, Josiah Pisciotta, California

# 125:

2:39 pm PDT, Jun 13, Judyta Dymkowska, Poland

# 124:

2:34 pm PDT, Jun 13, Dan Uncles, Delaware

# 123:

2:34 pm PDT, Jun 13, Alesia Staskiewicz, Wisconsin
Think about it: would you want your kids getting exposed to that kind of influence? I wouldn't.

# 122:

2:33 pm PDT, Jun 13, Judith Malone, North Carolina

# 121:

2:21 pm PDT, Jun 13, Joyce Dillenberger, Washington
I'm a life-long non-smoker. Several of our smoking friends have already DIED of heart attacks, lung cancer and other smoking-related illnesses. This stuff shouldn't even be legal, much less glamorized. Responsible people do what they can to make sure that smoking is shown ONLY for what it is: an addiction that can lead to illness and death. There is no middle ground here.

# 120:

2:19 pm PDT, Jun 13, Suzanne Jedrzejewski, New York

# 119:

2:14 pm PDT, Jun 13, John Paul Clark, Massachusetts

# 118:

1:59 pm PDT, Jun 13, Jeffry Steele, Massachusetts

# 117:

1:56 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, Minnesota

# 116:

1:55 pm PDT, Jun 13, Desiree Cros, North Carolina

# 115:

1:55 pm PDT, Jun 13, Merry Loscalzo-Stumpf, Iowa

# 114:

1:51 pm PDT, Jun 13, Robert Mcceney, Maryland

# 113:

1:51 pm PDT, Jun 13, Tawni Hughes, California
Children are so easily influenced, I pray someday Hollywood directs a positive way of living to our youth.

# 112:

1:49 pm PDT, Jun 13, Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom

# 111:

1:49 pm PDT, Jun 13, Bonnie Hoffman, California
Smoking o the movie screen? Are you kidding! STOP!! We NEED tobacco land for FOOD AGRICULTURE! PERIOD! We have skyrocketing food and fuel prices, yet we WASTE factories, fuel, precious land, precious water and pesticides on tobacco products!? This collective action is criminally insane. This is the 21st century! Stop growing and selling tobacco now!

# 110:

1:47 pm PDT, Jun 13, Gypsy Bandita, Texas

# 109:

1:42 pm PDT, Jun 13, James Calibjo, California

# 108:

1:37 pm PDT, Jun 13, Trina Patel, Idaho
Take some time to find out how much the media influences young minds. Many things in movies are taken very seriously by kids so please make the effort to reduce harm to them. They may not know much better, but you do.

# 107:

1:35 pm PDT, Jun 13, Katie Salazar, Texas
because its bqad for our health

# 106:

1:33 pm PDT, Jun 13, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

# 105:

1:32 pm PDT, Jun 13, Paul Bechtel, California

# 104:

1:31 pm PDT, Jun 13, Patricia Taylor - Romero, Wisconsin

# 103:

1:31 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, Washington

# 102:

1:27 pm PDT, Jun 13, Megan Wilson, New Hampshire

# 101:

1:27 pm PDT, Jun 13, Dave Searles, Wisconsin

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