Showing 1 - 6 of 6 articles tagged "Smoking and TV"

• Posted Friday 4/01/22 at 2:50AM EDT

  Senators urge Netflix to cut back on smoking and vaping scenes

  We urge your company to take more aggressive steps to limit this imagery and decrease young people’s consumption of this...

• Posted Wednesday 9/02/20 at 3:02AM EDT

  Study: TV depictions of tobacco use drives young people to vape

  The study in the scholarly journal Preventive Medicine and referenced by the public health group Truth Initiative says young viewers...

• Posted Friday 4/24/20 at 5:28PM EDT

  Henry Geller, the FCC counsel who helped get cigarette ads banned from TV, dies at 96

  Geller, who died on April 7, is credited with helping to save millions of lives.

• Posted Wednesday 10/02/19 at 1:31PM EDT

  Amazon reportedly tried to quash post-Emmys photos of Phoebe Waller-Bridge smoking

  A professional photographer shot several images of Waller-Bridge smoking at Amazon's post-Emmys after-party at the Chateau Marmont last week.

• Posted Thursday 9/19/19 at 3:54AM EDT

  CBS, WarnerMedia and Viacom are taking down Juul and other e-cigarette ads

  WarnerMedia channels CNN, TBS and TNT are among networks removing the e-cigarette ads, joining the Viacom channels and CBS in...

• Posted Wednesday 7/03/19 at 3:06PM EDT

  Netflix pledges to cut down on smoking scenes after criticism over Stranger Things

  A new report by anti-smoking group Truth Initiative, timed for the release of Stranger Things 3, found that Season 2...