Posts Tagged ‘young people’

Power of the cinema is leading young people to smoke

It’s easy to make fun of people who blame Hollywood for everything. After all, movies are merely entertainment. Movie studios are neither missionary chapels nor outposts of political correctness. They’re businesses. As a producer once remarked, “We don’t make movies. We make money.” ... read more >>

Smoking-in-films rating rejected

Proposals to give automatic 18 ratings to films shown in Liverpool which feature smoking characters have been rejected by councillors. Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) had wanted young people banned from seeing onscreen smoking because of research suggesting it influenced children. ... read more >>

Ban on hookah tobacco in the works

Young people in Denmark smoke hookah more than young people anywhere else in Europe, but that is about to come to an end. A parliamentary majority want to ban the addictive, sweet tobacco, according to free daily newspaper 24timer. ... read more >>

Why aid tobacco industry?

I read with amazement the article about the state helping to finance an expansion of Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co., with a package worth more than $4 million. ... read more >>