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Attorneys General Ask Hollywood to Remove Smoking from Movies 

In an effort to reduce the risk of smoking and its impact on children, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Attorneys General from across the country have asked Hollywood's major movie studios to take the advice of the Harvard School of Public Health: remove smoking depictions from films accessible to children.

"After years of letters and meetings, the Motion Picture Association of America told the Attorneys General last October that it was going to seek the advice of the experts at Harvard," said Attorney General Gansler. "If the studios are concerned about the health of our children, they will take that advice and remove smoking in movies viewed by children."

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