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Current Events/News Articles/Teaching Resources
Teachers: please select one or more of these timely news articles for your students to read. Each provides a unique aspect to the tobacco story. Some concentrate on media; others provide resources for you to use. 

2008
Movie Smoking More Common Than Real Life
Tobacco done up in pink to hook young
A Century Later, Camel Gets A Makeover
Why Don't We Talk About Smoking and Celebrity Deaths?
A 'PG-13' Rating, Despite the Haze
Cigarette Pack-Shaped Books Get British American Tobacco Steamed
Smoking in Movies Linked to Kids Lighting Up

2007
Eight States Sue R.J. Reynolds Over Rolling Stone Feature
RJ Reynolds to cease print ads
Moving Backwards? Movies and smoking
Women's Magazines Hop Into Bed With Big Tobacco
More Hollywood Studios Say ‘No Smoking’
Halt to 'female' Camel cigarettes sought
Bowing to Pressure, Disney Bans Smoking in Its Branded Movies
Fashion mags draw protests by printing tobacco ads
Nation's Pediatricians Urge Elimination of Smoking From Movies
Camel flowery new ads criticized
Images continue to entice kids to smoke
Puffing Away That PG Rating
Glamorous Media Image of Smokers Linked to Teen Smoking
Cigarette ad practices in retail stores associated with teen smoking habits
Senators Ask FTC to Probe Camel Ads
Hollywood's Smoke Alarm (TIME)
Cigarettes Affect Movie Ratings, Will Hollywood Change?
Critics Fume over Marketing of 'Camel No. 9'
R: the Scarlet Letter for tobacco?
R-rated movies lure white teens into smoking: study
Research: R-Rated Movies, Bedroom Televisions, and Initiation of Smoking by White and Black Adolescents
Smoking Under Fire
A New Camel Brand Is Dressed to the Nines
Adults support R-rating for films showing tobacco




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