Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘smoking’

Movie Ratings Downplay Smoking Risk

Movie Ratings Downplay Smoking Risk

Three years after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced they would include smoking when assigning ratings to films, a new report shows that more than half of widely released films showing tobacco were youth rated (that is, carrying a rating of G, PG or PG-13). [...]

July 1, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment,Featured News | Read More »

New Jersey Poised to Win ‘Race to the Bottom’ in State Anti-Tobacco Funding

New Jersey Poised to Win ‘Race to the Bottom’ in State Anti-Tobacco Funding

New Jersey is poised to rank 50th out of the 50 states in state funding for tobacco control programs, said state public health leaders at a Trenton press conference today. Speakers from New Jersey BREATHES, a coalition of anti-tobacco groups, said that the loss of all state funds for the Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) [...]

June 13, 2010 | Posted in Featured News,Health | Read More »