The American Medical Association and the Motion Picture Association of America are going head-to-head over the depiction of smoking in movies aimed toward children. <\/p>\n
Reported by USA Today shows that a study conducted by the AMA Alliance, a volunteer branch of the AMA, states that 57-percent of movies rated G, PG, or PG-13 have featured characters smoking since 2002. The PG-13 films are said to have a shocking 67-percent featuring smoking. <\/p>\n
The AMA Alliance accused the MPAA of failing to make good on its promise to include smoking in assessing a film’s suitability for showing to children. <\/p>\n
Seth Oster, a spokesman for the MPAA, stepped up and said that its own studies show that 75-percent of the films that featured smoking over the past four years were rated R and that the ratings descriptions now incorporate such phrases as “glamorizes smoking” and “pervasive smoking.” <\/p>\n
“The motion picture industry takes very seriously the issue of smoking in films,” Oster said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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