Movies

Smoking in movies is cool again

Smoking is making a comeback on the sil✨ver screen.

by the Cente♉rs for Disease Control and Prevention found tobacco use in movies shot up 72 percent between 2010 and 2016.

The CDC defined “tobacco incide𝓀nts” as the use or implied us🎀e of cigars, pipes, cigarettes, hookah or smokeless tobacco products, .

Researchers combed through data from Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!, a project by the nonprofit Bre💦athe Califor💮nia that keeps tabs on tobacco content in films.

They found that musical film “La La Land” had almost 35,000,000 tobacco impressions, while 2016 sci-fi 🐽thriller “10 Cloverfield Lane” ha🔯d more than 8,000,000.

The CDC s🅺ays ꦯit “has concluded there is a causal relationship between depictions of smoking in the movies and the initiation of smoking among young persons.” But in general, teen smoking has been on the decline since 2011.