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Hollywood: Quit Pushing Smoking on Our Kids!

Target: Motion Picture Association of America
Sponsored by: The Alliance of the American Medical Association

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: 4-28-2009
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:

# 7,659:

9:44 am PDT, Mar 10, Robyn Erler, California

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5:39 am PDT, Mar 10, Kenneth Hoppe, Texas

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10:13 pm PDT, Mar 9, Leah Lefler, Virginia

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6:48 pm PDT, Mar 8, Clair Davis, California

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3:13 pm PST, Mar 6, Leah Oleary, Pennsylvania

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11:48 am PST, Mar 6, Christy Venn, Alabama

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4:15 pm PST, Mar 5, Cynthia Johnson, New Jersey

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6:34 am PST, Mar 5, Kirsten REad, Connecticut

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3:32 am PST, Mar 5, Jennifer Hall, Tennessee

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9:24 pm PST, Mar 4, Josh Steinmetz, California

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4:18 am PST, Mar 4, David N Moore, Connecticut

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2:43 pm PST, Mar 3, Jennifer Clagett, Maryland

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11:19 am PST, Mar 3, Sue Barrell, New Jersey

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11:14 am PST, Mar 3, Kim Loan Nguyen, California

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3:43 pm PST, Mar 2, Claudia Tapia Guerrero, Mexico
Teach our kids about the damage caused by tabacco... don't just punish or forbid!

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7:00 am PST, Mar 2, Shersti Edwards, Texas

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12:02 pm PST, Feb 26, Cheri Dzubak, New Jersey

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7:36 am PST, Feb 24, Louis Reginato Jr, Virginia

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8:53 am PST, Feb 22, David & Diane Phillips, North Carolina

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8:44 pm PST, Feb 21, Jessica Ernye, New York

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2:45 pm PST, Feb 20, Shelley Graham, Wyoming

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7:38 pm PST, Feb 18, Rachel Faber, New Jersey

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4:53 pm PST, Feb 18, Stephanie Barr, Pennsylvania

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2:47 pm PST, Feb 18, Lisa Melton, Indiana

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1:17 am PST, Feb 18, Eliza Johnson, California

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3:37 pm PST, Feb 17, Martha Hubert, California

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10:17 am PST, Feb 17, Holly Chisholm, Michigan

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2:14 pm PST, Feb 16, JAMES SEDLACEK, Ohio

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9:27 pm PST, Feb 14, Jeffrey DeCristofaro, North Carolina
Screen all you want, but don't smoke!

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10:10 am PST, Feb 14, Cassandra Langevin, Florida

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10:58 pm PST, Feb 13, Samantha Gomez, New York

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10:30 am PST, Feb 13, Marcia Shivar, Ohio

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5:31 pm PST, Feb 12, Crystal Reynolds, Nebraska

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1:22 pm PST, Feb 10, Thomas Woodruff, Florida

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4:59 pm PST, Feb 8, Catherine Garrigus, Ohio

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10:55 am PST, Feb 7, Linda Fortier, Florida

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7:14 pm PST, Feb 6, Lisa Licolli, Florida

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10:26 am PST, Feb 6, Shaun Walker, Arizona
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4:38 pm PST, Feb 4, Ben Beckett, California

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4:39 pm PST, Feb 3, Name not displayed, Connecticut

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7:51 pm PST, Feb 2, Mark Baland, Texas
There is nothing glamorous about cancer, air pollution, and the stench of smoke.

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8:38 pm PST, Jan 30, Beth Weinman, Tennessee

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11:12 pm PST, Jan 28, April Widener, Alabama

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8:33 pm PST, Jan 28, Bruce Williams, California

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10:51 pm PST, Jan 24, YESENIA GONZALEZ, New Jersey

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