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You are correct Mr. Davis, somehow the statistic is somewhat inacurate. Thou I believe there is some truth to it. I mean when you're young,looking for identity and see this nasty habit being glamorised in a movie by a really cool white dude, you tend to ID with that person.
My fav movie shot of someone smoking was Lauren Bacall, followed by Ripley's bony hand holding a butt in 'Aliens'.

I noticed only good guys smoke in movies, I hardly see bad ones do. My feeling tells me tabacco companies who give money to producers want smoking done by good-looking people.
Most times bad guys are played by minorities, foreigns and ugly-balding fatsos that R.J. Reinold say 'nay nay' to that.

The reference to Jay and silent Bob is humorous but weak. These guys make me laugh but only cause they are so stupid. Now if you put a Marlboro in Tom Cruise's mouth or Keanu's, then you are talking.
(And if you show the brand it will sell more Resses than E.T)

Frankly my dear, I don't smoke, yet I respect those who do, just not near me.

Have you ever heard of the 'Indian's Revenge?'
There's a theory that just before the American indians got wiped out, they in return gave 'smoking' back to the white man. (talk about a Trojan horse) So in a way the indians have killed more whites, and who knows how many more will perish.And therefore they won.

I confess, there's no such theory-I made it up, but it sounds plaussible. Who knows what's fair in war.

Speaking of war, I got two points:
1) In China, smoking is triple than in US. Are they influenced by movies too? I don't think so.
2) Cigarrettes in the United $tates have killed (a horrible death) more people than 911 and all acts of terrorism combined. And who do we attack? Saddam Hussein.

I love my country, and my leaders.
Anyway: movies do influence the young to smoke, only not as much as this report indicates.

I wanted to bring up maryjuana legalization vs. cigarrettes, but this pisses people off.
Instead here's a trivia for you dear friends:

#1. what president smoked three packs a day until his heart attack put an end to the habit.
Clue: LJ
#2. What first lady officially declared all areas of the White House smoke-free in 1993?
Clue: she'll be the first woman president (yeah right!)

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i have to agree, while there might be a small causality between smoking in movies and teen smoking this study damns itself by not properly accounting for the other factors such as friends that smoke etc. it's like someone asked the question and they answered it by ignoring it and saying it doesn't account for that much. more like perhaps the other way around. that it's the friends and those other unimportant factors that cause teen smoking the most and cigarette smoking in films is the final encouragement for those already thinking about it.

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Fu**ing people trying to spread these kinds of things around. Makes me angry...

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Parents that let their kids watch R rated movies aren't going to be around enough to notice if they smoke too. I say the common factor is lazy parenting.

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As with most scientific studies this one is suffering from a misguided representation of it in the general media as well as a complete over reaction by those that hear about it. This is a correlational study which, by definition, does not attempt to show causality. The study merely points out a very strong positive connection between white children who smoke and their propensity to see R-Rated movies. It says their may be something in the films that influences children to smoke (which I don't think anyone can deny...we emulate the behaviors of our hero's when we are growing up) but that the movie doesn't MAKE kids run out to the nearest convenience store and begin sucking back a pack a day. The study does take into account other factors, and shows that movie watching is an independent influence outside of these variables. Please do not get furious at a study that you have not fully examined and that you have only read about in one article that was written by a journalist, not a scientist.

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