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Tobacco Use Jumps 80 Percent in Top-Grossing Movies

  • July 12, 2017

A new report on the portrayal of tobacco use in movies reveals that 41 percent of the top-grossing movies showed people using tobacco. While that was a decrease from the year before, according to CNN Health, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says tobacco use in movies actually jumped 80 percent in the one year between 2015 and 2016. People smoke for a variety of reasons, but research shows that it’s mainly because smoking stimulates certain pleasing and enjoyable emotions....