Movie depictions of smoking decline as cigarette foes work to extinguish (Bloomberg)

Film directors’ dependence on cigarettes as a style setter is lessening, researchers led by Stanton Glantz, a campaigner for smoke-free films, said today in a report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . . . In the U.S., smoking is responsible for almost 1 in 5 deaths, and about 8.6 million people suffer from smoking-related lung and heart diseases, according to the American Cancer Society in Atlanta.
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