CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday. Sign up here.

Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse. That’s according to a new report from public health nonprofit Truth ...

I am continually amazed when watching the latest shows and films that cigarette smoking remains so commonplace. The US Master Settlement Agreement (1998) prohibits tobacco companies from explicitly ...

REUTERS - Youth who watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, no matter what the film's rating is, are more likely to start smoking themselves, according to a new U.S. study. The lead ...

WASHINGTON — Movies and cigarettes have long gone together like Bogey and Bacall, but after years of pressure from advocacy groups, films will now get tougher ratings if their characters light up. The ...

RICHMOND, Nov. 15 -- The nation's largest cigarette maker is asking Hollywood not to put its products on the big screen, citing studies that have shown cinematic portrayals of tobacco use can entice ...

Who could understand Twin Peaks without Laura Palmer smoking or the scene of Dean Stockwell singing to Roy Orbison with a ...

March 16, 2007— -- The Motion Picture Association of America this week hinted that onscreen smoking may become a factor in the rating decisions for newly released movies. This could signal a ...

LOS ANGELES — Add cigarettes to the list of things that the family-friendly Walt Disney Co. has to figure out as it prepares to integrate the sharper-edged 20th Century Fox movie and television studio ...

The "Elf" actor appeared in the crowd at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. What's worse than cramming 11 cookies into the VCR? Buddy the Elf's holiday season, apparently. Actor Will Ferrell proved ...