Smoking kills, that's a fact. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has made it its job to save lives by giving an R rating to all movies that show characters smoking cigarettes. It's a ...

Hobbits toke on pipes in the Shire. James Bond smokes while outsmarting foes and wooing women. Freddie Mercury and his bandmates puff on cigarettes as Queen rockets to stardom. The lead characters in ...

ATLANTA -- A new study shows three film companies have drastically reduced smoking from their movies aimed at children and teens. The three companies have in recent years adopted policies to cut ...

Respiratory specialists have recommended that hospital clinicians be empowered to screen patients for tobacco dependence and refer smokers to onsite dependency advisers to help reduce smoking-related ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Smoking cessation programs in general persuade probably at best about 10% of participants to quit, but a new approach has raised this to 27%. That improvement was reported here at ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Far fewer top-grossing U.S. films aimed at young audiences are featuring smoking scenes, a possible factor in the decline in cigarette use among middle and high school students, ...

?If you argue correctly, you?re never wrong,? Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) tells his son Joey (Cameron Bright). As funny as ?Thank You for Smoking? is, this message, the movie?s central one, is rather ...

ATLANTA - Three film companies have drastically reduced smoking in their movies aimed at children and teens, thanks in part to their policies to reduce on-screen tobacco use, a new study says. Over ...