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Do R-Rated Films Make Teens Smoke? A new study says yes--but only in the case of white adolescents. The study, published in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, interviewed non-smoking teens in 2002 on how much television they watched, the films they had seen t... Continue reading Do R-Rated Films Make Teens Smoke?
PG-13 Films Teach Kids Violence A report on top-earning movies marketed to adolescents published in Pediatrics shows that 87 percent of PG-13 films contain scenes of violence. Studying a sample of 77 films released between 1999 and 2000, researchers found 2251 acts of violence, with a me... Continue reading PG-13 Films Teach Kids Violence
Studies on Smoking are Summer Blockbusters in Their Own Right As blockbusters begin to hit the movie theaters, a trio of separate studies regarding smoking and cinema have been released this first month of summer shedding light on both the suggestive power of seeing big screen heroes light up and the ineffectiveness o... Continue reading Studies on Smoking are Summer Blockbusters in Their Own Right |
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