The MPAA's position doesn't go far enough to address the seriousness of smoking among young people, says Fiore, noting that a U.S. Surgeon General's report published in March concluded that smoking in movies is one of the causes of youth smoking.
This is not one of the smoking guns that Mr. Goodell had previously been sitting on.
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Of the 3, 140 films that received a rating between May 2007 and March 2011, 54% contained at least one instance of smoking, according to MPAA statistics.
Russia has one of the highest smoking rates in the world, with more than four in 10 Russians considered smokers.
Merck's defense of the tort suits will hinge on the difficulty of proving that Vioxx was the culprit in any one heart attack, instead of smoking, cholesterol or other causes.
Instead, Cupertino's lawyers are burrowing through Samsung's history in search of a legal smoking gun, and one of their latest submissions has been presented as just that.
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There's nothing more compelling than a bunch of celebrities sporting Prada bags in one hand and smoking puros in the other to inspire revolutions of capitalistic proportions.
And then it emerges that one of the websites - the Smoking Gun - reports that he has a criminal past.
Voice changes also occur with viral and bacterial infection, like the common cold or flu, and are one of the characteristics of heavy smoking.
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So Rexrode asked Flanders whether he'd don one of the founder's trademark smoking jackets and surround himself with bunnies because ... well, just because he can.
The region is number one worldwide in the devastating effects of smoking with this exception: In Sweden, the only EU country where snus is not banned, only 16 percent of men smoke.
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About one-third to one-half of adolescents who begin smoking may do so because they see smoking in the movies, some research suggests, and the tobacco industry has spent big bucks in the past to make sure cigarettes appeared in popular movies, according to Smoke Free Movies, a University of California San Francisco project.
The arrival of total football coincided with Amsterdam's transformation from being one of Europe's most boring cities to a dope-smoking capital of free love.
The testing concluded there was no chance that short-circuiting would lead to a fire, and the odds of a smoking battery were one in every 10 million flight hours.
The magnificently situated Rancho las Hamacas in San Jacinto, northwest Nicaragua, overlooks the natural bubbling mud pools of Hervideros de San Jacinto, where you can camp for the night before climbing the smoking Volcano Telica, one of the country's 12 fumingly active Maribios volcanoes.
Of course, society's perception of smoking has changed a lot since the days of doctors actually endorsing one brand or another in the first half of last century.
One of the biggest changes is the decline in smoking, which has been a plot point on Mad Men.
Britain, which is already one of the world's heaviest taxers of smoking, last month went ahead with a full ban on tobacco advertising.
According to the Smoking Gun, Andrews was just one of 16 female reporters he targeted.
Cassie Graham signed up for a 10-week smoking-cessation class held during one of her free periods at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County.
Keep Britain Tidy said fast-food litter was one of the main problems these days, and that smoking-related litter had doubled since bans were introduced for enclosed public places.
He told them that one of them was going to have to take up smoking, lest people get the impression there was something unwordly about these Opus Dei guys.
One day, outside what was once the smoking section of Westport High School, Abrams pulls in with a brand new red Corvette.
At the time our son David died in June 2010 after smoking K2, virtually no one had heard of this synthetic drug.
China - home to one-third of the world's smokers - outlawed smoking in bars, restaurants and buses from 1 May 2011 and Russia plans to implement similar legislation from 2015.
He first prohibited smoking in bars, which proved to be one of his most popular achievements despite initial resistance.
The fact that she looked equally good in slacks, posing by one of the 27 tigers she personally eliminated, or perched, smoking, on an elephant, merely underlined the point.
Finally, I encourage young people to focus on things they'd like to improve about themselves that they can potentially change (such as becoming a better student, musician or athlete) and try their best to be strong and healthy by eating a well-balanced nutritious diet, getting at least one hour of exercise daily, and avoiding harmful habits such as smoking cigarettes or using drugs.
One in five deaths is caused by smoking, including a third of cancer deaths.
One piece, cast in bronze, shows the head of a man smoking a cigarette.
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