As movies portray fewer smokers, fewer teens light up  

Blockbuster movies are less likely to portray smokers than they have in the past, according to a new study. What's more, this decline in on-screen smoking may have occurred in tandem with a drop in the number of adolescents who have lit up in real life.

Teenage smoking and the number of smoking scenes in movies have declined, according to a study.

While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not-so-glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes. . . .

* Critics say showing smoking in movies is free advertising for cigarettes

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