Cigarette Smoking In the "Charlie's Angels" Movie

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MASCOT Reviews:
Training Day with Academy Award winner Denzel Washington

Charlie's Angels featuring Cameron Diaz

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Charlie's Angels Reviewed
Advertised as "a high-octane, high tech update that brings the show
from the 1970s into the new millennium," this 2000 action movie
features the sexy trio of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.
The MPAA rates this film "PG-13" for "action violence, innuendo and
some sensuality/nudity."

Some consider this an empowering "chick-flick" that manifests some
positive female roles, yet MASCOT has never reviewed such a blantant
smoking-imagery movie. All "bad" or rebellious characters use
cigarettes and smoking to enhance their performance.

Art of War starring Wesley Snipes
3000 Miles to Graceland featuring Kevin Costner
'In the Bedroom' Is Leader of the Cigarette Pack

http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/whoswho/actors.html
The only way for an actor to smoke on screen is to do it with the
camera running. If they refuse, it won't happen. Stars who insist on
smoking because of their nicotine addiction -- particularly when they
smoke identifiable brands -- are compromising the film and betraying
their fans.


There is good scientific evidence that teens are more likely to smoke
if their favorite actors smoke.




These actors and actresses have smoked a lot in their movies:

Drew Barrymore
Annette Bening
Kenneth Branagh
Nicolas Cage
Matt Damon
Robert De Niro
Danny DeVito
Leonardo DiCaprio
Mel Gibson
Gene Hackman
Anthony Hopkins
Ethan Hawke
Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin Kline
Matthew McConaughey
Al Pacino
Gweyneth Paltrow
Joe Pantoliano
Brad Pitt
Kevin Pollack
Julia Roberts
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Gary Sinse
John Travolta
Deborah Unger
Denzel Washington
Bruce Willis

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Here are some questions to ask the actors who smoke in movies:

How do you feel about helping the tobacco industry make money selling
its deadly product?
Do you realize your smoking on screen helps Big Tobacco get around ad
restrictions worldwide?
Why not promote nonsmokers' rights instead of tobacco industry
profits?
Have you read any of the secret tobacco industry documents about
smoking in the movies?


Drew Barrymore
1122 S. Robertson Blvd. #15 Los Angeles CA 90035

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Tobacco At The Movies: Tobacco Use In PG-13 Films

MASSPIRG Education Fund

Summary | News Release

Download the full report. (PDF, 300 KB)

Download the letter to the Motion Picture Association of America's
Jack Valenti from U.S. PIRG. (PDF, 17 KB)

Latest ad in the Smoke Free Movies campaign to run in
Hollywood's "Daily Variety" on October 30 incorporates MASSPIRG
findings. Click on the ad on the left to see a bigger image. (PDF)

Summary

Contrary to the expected decrease of tobacco use in films following
the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the tobacco
industry and 46 states 1 , tobacco use in the most popular youth-
oriented movies has actually increased by 50 percent.

The MSA holds tobacco companies accountable for their actions. They
must pay restitution to 46 states for healthcare costs incurred from
tobacco-caused illnesses. Additionally, tobacco companies must cease
marketing practices that target minors and cannot make payments to
Hollywood to get brand name tobacco products placed in movies.2
Despite this agreement, tobacco products and their use have
increasingly found their way into movies geared toward and accessible
to teenagers. This report compares the incidence of tobacco use and
brand appearance in PG-13 movies in the two years before (1996, 1997)
and after (1999, 2000) the settlement.

The report found:

1. Smoking in the most popular, youth-oriented, PG-13 movies is up
since the tobacco settlement.

2. Teenagers are more readily influenced by tobacco ads and/or use in
films than other age groups.

3. Tobacco companies stand to benefit financially from individuals
who start to use tobacco at an early age; 90 percent of all adult
smokers begin before they are 18.

4. Tobacco companies have violated the tobacco settlement in other
ways and have a long history of marketing their products toward young
and underage persons. In June, 2002, RJ Reynolds was fined for
continuing to advertise in magazines with high youth readership.

Specifically:

• Tobacco use is up 50 percent in post-settlement films. Of the films
showing tobacco use, they averaged 1,288 frames of tobacco use before
the settlement and 1,938 frames after the settlement. This translates
into an average of 0.89 minutes of tobacco use in pre-settlement
films versus 1.35 minutes post-settlement.3

• Tobacco use remains prevalent in PG-13, youth-oriented movies.
Eighty-two percent (18 of 22) of post-settlement movies and 80
percent (16 of 20) of pre-settlement movies contained tobacco use.

• Most films portray smokers and smoking in a positive or neutral
light. Eighty-three percent (15 of 18) of post-settlement movies with
tobacco use showed characters with either positive or neutral
attitudes toward smoking, conveying the perception that smoking is
acceptable and even "cool." Some movies, like The Family Man, showed
smoking in a festive atmosphere during a Christmas party, while
others, like What Women Want, showed smoking as relaxing and calming.
In Notting Hill, a supporting character with a positive connotation
announces that she has given up smoking, her "favorite thing," but in
the end lights up again anyway.

• Fewer films feature negative statements about tobacco use. Before
the settlement, 31 percent (5 of 16) of movies showed tobacco use as
a negative; post-settlement that number fell to 17 percent (3 of 18).
However, even negative 3 "In contrast to the health groups, who saw
smoking as a medical issue, the tobacco industry has always seen
smoking as a cultural issue. And there is not a better way to control
pop culture worldwide than through movies. Tobacco mass marketing and
Hollywood pop culture grew up together, businesslike twins joined at
the hip. For 80 years the tobacco industry has addicted hundreds of
millions of men and women with the he help of Hollywood movies – and
later, TV – that portrayed smoking as glamorous, sexy, adult." –
Professor Stanton Glantz, Los Angeles Times column, 2 June 2001.
portrayals of smoking in film have been shown to increase propensity
for youth smoking.4

• Several films showed identifiable, brand name cigarette packs.
Although the name of the cigarette brand was obscured, the packaging
design clearly identified the cigarettes as a particular brand. These
movies were The Perfect Storm, Meet the Parents, and The Family Man.
According to the MSA, brand-name tobacco use in films is forbidden.

• Big name stars smoked in both pre- and post-settlement films. Post-
settlement on-screen smokers included Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, Ben
Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Mark Wahlberg, Eddie Murphy, Hugh Jackman,
Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and Kenneth Branagh. Pre-settlement on-
screen smokers included Julia Roberts, Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Tommy Lee Jones, and Arnold
Schwarzenegger.

"In contrast to the health groups, who saw smoking as a medical
issue, the tobacco industry has always seen smoking as a cultural
issue. And there is not a better way to control pop culture worldwide
than through movies. Tobacco mass marketing and Hollywood pop culture
grew up together, businesslike twins joined at the hip. For 80 years
the tobacco industry has addicted hundreds of millions of men and
women with the he help of Hollywood movies – and later, TV – that
portrayed smoking as glamorous, sexy, adult."

–Professor Stanton Glantz, Los Angeles Times column, 2 June 2001.

Studies have shown that young people are influenced by the smoking
behavior of their favorite stars, both on and off the screen. As a
result, the tobacco industry once regularly paid movie studios to
display their brands in feature films prior to the settlement, a
practice now forbidden. However, the continued – and increased –
prevalence of tobacco use in youth-oriented movies following the
settlement raises questions about the ability of tobacco companies to
circumvent the MSA terms that curtailed the display of tobacco use in
feature films.

To counter the detrimental effect on youth, Hollywood must restrict
tobacco use in films. States also must enforce the terms of the
settlement and fund tobacco control and prevention efforts that
present young people with the true facts about smoking and health.

This report builds on the work of Professor Stanton Glantz of the
School of Medicine, University of California at San Franciso,
particularly his report "How the Tobacco Industry Built Its
Relationship with Hollywood."5 In that report, Glantz examines
tobacco industry files to unearth the planned and methodical
placement of tobacco products in film and television to increase
product sales.

This report differs from Glantz's because it looks only at movies
that target minors and compares the amount of tobacco use in pre- and
post-settlement PG-13 films.

Significantly, although the reports use different methodologies to
quantify smoking in movies, they come to the same conclusion:
Hollywood and the tobacco industry continue to addict children to
smoking.

Notes

1 http://www.naag.org/tobac/tobagr.htm. Accessed August 8, 2002.

2 G. Kelder, "Consent Decrees and Judgments: in G. Kelger and P.
Davidson, eds. The Mulitstate Master Settlement Agreement and the
Future of State and Local Tobacco Control: An Analysis of Selected
Topics and Provisions of the Multistate Master Settlement Agreement
of November 23, 1998. (Commissioned and Funded by the American Cancer
Society) (March 23, 1999).

3 24 frames are projected per second. http://www.howstuffworks.com
and http://www.24framespersecond.com. Accessed July 22, 2002.

4 http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news...imesOpEd.html,
Accessed October 1, 2002.


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Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Brown and Williamson and other big
tobacco companies then addict and kill them, making billions in
profits.

This site uncovers that story. Identifies who's responsible, by name.
And shows you how you can stop the U.S. film industry from doing Big
Tobacco's dirty work in the U.S. and around the world.


http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/whoswho/index.html
Many different people in Hollywood, starting with the studio heads
pictured here, contribute to the problem. Those same people can help
solve it.

Studios
Whether a film is a big budget blockbuster or a small independent
film, at some point a major studio gets involved. They "greenlight"
the project, provide the financing, hire the director and often the
actors, and approve the final product for release. If studio heads
let it be known that they frown on promoting tobacco, every one else
would definitely think twice before doing it.

Motion Picture Association of America
The MPAA is Hollywood's political arm. Its function is to protect the
entertainment industry from the public so that it can make as much
money as possible with as few restrictions as possible. MPAA
president Jack Valenti provides most of Hollywood's public excuses
for smoking in the movies. The MPAA has a long and close relationship
with the tobacco industry. The MPAA also manages the rating system.
It could help fix the problem by giving movies with smoking an "R"
rating.

Producers
Producers have to raise the money to make a film. They're responsible
for hiring the director, actors and everyone connected with actually
making the film. If they think that smoking or other tobacco
promotions will make it harder to raise the money or sell a film,
they will discourage it.

Directors
Directors supervise the actual making of the film. They decide what
is shown and done on screen. Nothing happens in a film — including
smoking or other tobacco promotions — if the director doesn't let it
happen.

Actors
The only way for an actor to smoke on screen is to do it with the
camera running. If an actor refuses, it won't happen. Stars who
insist on smoking because of their addiction are compromising the
film and betraying their fans.

Screenwriters
Screenwriters create the screenplay, which is where most movies
begin. Screenwriters can choose to use cigarettes as a plot device or
character detail — or choose not to. Nobody will miss it if they
don't. People definitely notice if they do.

Editors
Editors take all of the footage shot by the director, sequence the
camera angles and other elements of scenes, and assemble the final
film, frame by frame. Smoking — particularly images of stars smoking
specific brands — cannot appear on screen unless the editor puts it
in the final cut. Editors can also leave tobacco billboards and other
pro-tobacco images on the cutting room floor.

Property Masters
Property masters work with directors and production designers to
dress the sets and locations where movies are made. They put out the
cigarettes or put up the tobacco advertisements. They can also ensure
that there are no cigarettes and ashtrays in the shot. They could put
up "No smoking" signs.






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advertise in magazines like Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated.
It's time to tell the publishers your life is worth more than Big
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Who's your favorite movie or television star? Ever seen them light up
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favorite films and shows for tobacco use and let us know if they
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encouraging them not promote smoking and tobacco in their films and
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industry's secret ties to Hollywood visit the SmokeFree Movies site.

Celebrity Contact Information

Creative Artists Agency, LLC
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Represents:
Sarah Jessica Parker – Smoked in TV series "Sex in the City"
Matt Damon – Smoked in movie "Good Will hunting"
Ben Affleck -
Sandra Bullock- Smoked in movies "Forces of Nature, "28 Days"
and "Speed."
Drew Barrymore – Smoked in movies "Charlies Angels" and "Mad Love."
Brad Pitt – Smoked in movie "Fight club and "Legends of the Fall."
Glenn Close – Smoked in movie "102 Dalmatians."
Gwyneth Paltrow – Smoked in "Bounce" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

ICM
8942 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Represents: Christina Ricci – Smoked in movies "200 Cigarettes"
and "Ice Storm."
Sara Michelle Gellar – Smoked in "Cruel Intentions"
Mel Gibson - Smoked in movie "Payback."

United Talent Agency
9560 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 500
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Represents:
Ben Stiller - Smoked in "Meet the Parents."

William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Represents:
George Clooney: Smoked in movie "Out of Site"

Leonardo DiCaprio – Smoked in movie "Titanic" and Romeo and Juliet."
955 South Carrillo Drive #300
Los Angeles, CA 90048

John Cusack – Smoked in movie "High Fidelity."
555 Rose Avenue
Venice, CA 90291

Heather Graham – Smoked in "Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me."
1633 Hill Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Julia Roberts – Smoked in "My Best Friends Wedding" and "Erin
Brockovich."
6220 Del Valle Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Nicolas Cage – Smoked in movies "Snake Eyes" and "Face Off."
1026 Working Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027




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Dear Editor,

My name is (_______) and I am _____ (age) years old. I have been
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it is one of my favorite magazines. Recently I was surprised to see
that this magazine has tobacco advertising. Why? I don't like to see
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How come your magazine has ads make tobacco look cool to kids? Don't
you care about the message this sends to us?

Did you know that 3000 kids per day start smoking and that one third
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I would appreciate if ______ (name of magazine) would stop accepting
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Fan Mail

Dear (Name of Celebrity),

Hi, I'm a ____-year-old moviegoer from (name of the state you live
in), and I'm a big fan of your acting. I've seen you in (list 2 films
that they have starred and smoked in, and mention their smoking
roles).

I'm writing you not only as a fan, but also as a young person who is
tired of seeing smoking being portrayed as cool in movies! Why does
Hollywood make smoking seem tough and rebellious when in reality it
decreases your lung capacity so that you're short of breath when you
need to get out of trouble. Sometimes smoking is made out to be a
bonding experience. Smoking with a couple friends doesn't make a
better friendship; it only means that at least one of you is going to
die early from a tobacco-related disease. Do you really think that
smoking makes you look sexy? In real life, would you want to kiss
someone who had just finished a cigarette? Do you find yellow-stained
teeth, brittle hair, extra wrinkles, smelly breath and a hacking
cough attractive and desirable?

Millions of kids like me watch your movies and we look up to you. Did
you know 90 percent of people who smoke started before the age of 19?
Please don't smoke in any more films. Please don't make even more
kids think that they have to smoke in order to be cool like you.

Thank you for your consideration of my feelings on this important
issue.

Sincerely,

Your Name

http://www.time.com/time/pacific/mag...415/smoke.html
Puffing Up a Storm
Smoking is on the rise in movies, sparking a campaign to stub it out.
A look at who's behind it
By MARGOT ROOSEVELT

Rob Reiner, co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, was appalled
when he saw his studio's film Proof of Life. It wasn't that he could
predict the movie's demise at the box office. "I thought, ŒWow,
why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to
the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of
discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who
wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a
really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising
cigarettes to kids."

Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life,
argues Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies"
newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer
Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured
50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an
American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco
use in films last year occurred in family- and teen-rated movies.
With youth smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is
building to hold Hollywood accountable. Says Glantz: "The
entertainment industry is in denial."

But it's getting an education. Susan Moses, deputy director of
Harvard's Center for Health Communication, and Lindsay Doran, former
head of United Artists, have been going door to door among the
studios. They hit the honchos with hard facts: a million American
teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will
eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met
with executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran, "they said,
ŒSmoking is not in any of our scripts.' But then they called the
next day and said, ŒWe looked, and it's everywhere.'" Karen
Kehela, co-chairman of Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking out of
one script after the meeting, "but the actor insisted on smoking,"
she says. In fact, many movie stars are hooked on the habit. "Actors
who smoke look for any reason to incorporate it into their
characters," Reiner says. "You have directors who don't care about
the social implications or are kowtowing to the actors."

Last month, the American Lung Association gave its Hackademy Award to
Sissy Spacek and In the Bedroom for using Marlboros throughout the
film. Dishonorable Mentions went to Charlie's Angels and Save the
Last Dance-smoke-filled movies aimed at adolescents. "Teens imitate
onscreen behavior," says Doran. And it's not enough to make the good
guy a nonsmoker because "bad guys are cool."

If all the friendly meetings and cutely named awards fail, critics
have a solution the industry will hate: require an R rating on movies
that glamorize smoking. "If your movie has the F word twice, you get
rated R," says Reiner. "But that's a lot less harmful to a kid."

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THE BIG PICTURE
Ad Banned, but Smoking on Screen Isn't

By PATRICK GOLDSTEIN

If there's anywhere anyone can advertise about anything, it's Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. In the past few weeks I've spotted ads for a Greek Cruising Palace yacht rental, cage-free dog kennels, crew jacket catalogs and—talk about throwing away your money—"for your consideration" Oscar ads for "Planet of the Apes"
But there's one ad neither of the Hollywood trades will run—the latest broadside from Smoke Free Movies, a health advocacy group that's been at the forefront of a no-holds-barred campaign against the proliferation of cigarette smoking in movies. Led by UC San Francisco School of Medicine professor Stanton Glantz, a pit bull-like anti-smoking activist, Smoke Free Movies has run a series of ads in publications including the New York Times detailing what it calls Hollywood's "sordid history of trading cash, goods and publicity" for glamorizing smoking in movies. Citing its studies, which have found smoking on screen today more frequent than it has been since the early 1960s, the organization advocates giving an R rating to any movie that features tobacco use.
Variety ran the organization's earlier ads, including one that pictured studio chiefs whom Glantz blames for creating a movie environment that promotes smoking to global audiences. But Variety rejected the latest Smoke Free Movies ad, which attacked Miramax's "In the Bedroom" for "gratuitously promoting Marlboro brand cigarettes," noting that the film's co-star, Sissy Spacek, is seen specifically asking a grocer in one scene for Marlboro Lights.
Glantz says Variety never voiced a complaint about the ad until an ABC News reporter who'd interviewed Glantz called Miramax for a comment on the upcoming ads. "The next day Variety called and said they wouldn't run the ad," says Glantz. "It's so obvious—I have no doubt Miramax demanded that they pull the ads. People say that when we criticize smoking in movies that we're interfering with free speech, but then Miramax turns around and uses its economic muscle to basically shut me up."
Glantz says that after ABC News contacted Miramax he received a phone call from a Miramax publicity executive who told him the "In the Bedroom" ad could damage the film's Oscar chances. According to Glantz, the publicist said, "Why don't you pick on 'A Beautiful Mind'? They smoke in that movie too."
The trades have a history of running advocacy ads pertaining to specific movies. The day before New Line released "John Q," in which a desperate dad holds an emergency room hostage when his son is denied a heart transplant, a health insurance lobbying group bought full-page ads in both trades blaming Washington for failing to address the problems of the uninsured.
Variety publisher Charles Koones says Glantz's "In the Bedroom" ad was a different case. "The ad singled out a particular picture, which I thought was potentially libelous," he explained. "If it gave five examples of smoking in the movies, I would've run it."
Koones said he never spoke with Miramax about the ad, an account supported by the studio. "They had nothing to do with this. It was totally my call."
After Variety rejected the ad, Glantz went to the Hollywood Reporter, which also turned it down. The Reporter's associate publisher Lynn Segall said, "We felt the content and the tone weren't appropriate."
As to the ad's attack on the film itself and the larger issue of smoking in the movie, "In the Bedroom" director Todd Field insists there is nothing gratuitous about the smoking in the film. "When people grieve, they fall back on old habits, especially in an oral way," he says. "My dad was a terrible smoker before I convinced him to quit. But if he lost one of his kids, he'd go back in a heartbeat. There's nothing glamorous about this behavior. It's a 52-year-old mother, it's not like the smoking in 'Pulp Fiction.' The ad makes all sorts of ludicrous accusations—it feels like cultural McCarthyism to me."
I agree with Field. I wish Glantz had gone after "Charlie's Angels," a film that features smoking and appeals to kids, not adults. But the ad controversy highlights an even more troublesome issue. In an era in which tobacco use is on the decline in virtually every demographic category in the U.S., why is cigarette smoking still on the rise in Hollywood films?
Since the landmark 1964 surgeon general's report that linked smoking to an increased likelihood of disease and early death, smoking has lost much of its allure. Advertising tobacco brands on TV has been illegal since 1970. It took Hollywood longer to stop accepting money in return for cigarette plugs in films. In the mid-1980s Sylvester Stallone was paid $500,000 to use Brown & Williamson products in five feature films, according to documents posted on the Smoke Free Movies Web site. Finally, in 1989, tobacco firms pledged to stop paying for product placement in films. Most studios won't even take tobacco products for free today. But cigarette plugs didn't stop, only the exchange of cash. As recently as 1991, R.J. Reynolds was paying the heavyweight Hollywood PR firm Rogers and Cowan $12,500 a month to provide free cigarettes to a slew of film productions as well as an elite list of stars and industry leaders, also according to documents on the Smoke Free Movies site. Judging from films today, the tobacco companies' continuing efforts to promote smoking have paid off.
At a time when smoking is banned in most public places, tobacco use is everywhere in movies. You can find stars smoking in three of the five films nominated for best picture: Spacek, Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" and too many actors to count in "Gosford Park." Gene Hackman and Gwyneth Paltrow smoke up a storm in "The Royal Tenenbaums"; ditto for Billy Bob Thornton in "The Man Who Wasn't There," Halle Berry and much of the cast of "Monster's Ball," Ewan McGregor and others in "Black Hawk Down," John Travolta in "Swordfish," Cameron Diaz in "Vanilla Sky" and nearly everyone in "Sexy Beast."
Filmmakers say there are good reasons for characters to puff away. Crowe starts smoking in "Beautiful Mind" as a visual tip-off to his descent into schizophrenia. In Adrian Lyne's upcoming film "Unfaithful," Diane Lane takes up smoking after she has begun an extramarital affair.
Still, there are many examples of celluloid smoking that appear to have more to do with style than dramatic justification. One producer speculates that smoking is rampant in films because if there's one demographic group that smokes more than Virginia tobacco growers, it's Hollywood actors. Throughout the HBO documentary series "Project Greenlight," two people are always seen smoking—Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. One reason Crowe didn't show up in the press room immediately after winning his Oscar last year is because he had stepped outside the Shrine Auditorium for a cigarette.
Most studios have no formal smoking guidelines. Warners says it strongly encourages directors not to portray film heroes as smokers, but final decisions are left to the filmmakers. Universal has a "consciousness-raising discussion" with filmmakers about smoking before a film goes into production. "We don't have any edicts but we ask our filmmakers to avoid having good or bad characters smoke in a film," says studio Chairwoman Stacey Snider.
She admits the urgings aren't always effective, since both Julia Roberts and Crowe, the stars of the studio's two most prestigious recent films, "Erin Brockovich" and "A Beautiful Mind," are both seen smoking. "I'm never going to censor ["Erin Brockovich" director] Steven Soderbergh," says Snider. "But it's important to at least challenge filmmakers to think about their decisions."
Hollywood's leading consciousness raiser has been Lindsay Doran, producer of "Sense and Sensibility" and a former United Artists production chief who has recently made anti-smoking presentations at numerous studios and major production companies. As a young production exec, she persuaded John Hughes to make his title character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" a nonsmoker.
"If you have a PG-13 film, you know your marketing department is going to do everything it can to get teenagers to see the movie," she says. "We know smoking is the all-time leading cause of early death. So you have to ask yourself, if you're deciding between free speech and social consciousness, what's more important?"
Doran has been treated with respect by industry execs; she's one of them. Reaction to Glantz hasn't been so warm. People in Hollywood resent pushy moral crusaders who criticize their business practices. When Glantz ran a photo of Warner Bros. chief Barry Meyer in one of his ads, citing him as a tool of Big Tobacco, a top Warners corporate publicist called the UCSF School of Medicine to question whether the publicly supported university knew its funds were being used to support Glantz's campaign.
Glantz's ads are often obnoxious, but they make a valid point. It's time for a serious debate about a serious issue. Studies show that kids who see stars smoking in films are more likely to start smoking. If my young son were a teenager tomorrow, and you asked me what movie behavior I'd want him to emulate the least—cursing, experimenting with sex or smoking cigarettes—puffing on a Marlboro would win hands down. Yet profanity and sex trigger an R rating from the Motion Picture Assn. of America, but smoking doesn't.
I'm personally against all ratings and self-censorship, but if the presence of profanity prevented kids from seeing uplifting films like "Ali" and "Billy Elliot," then why shouldn't cigarette smoking prompt the same ratings restrictions? If the MPAA made every movie with smoking R-rated, shrinking the studios' access to young moviegoers, the hue and cry about free speech would disappear overnight—99% of the smoking in movies would evaporate.
Glantz has an even more modest idea worth adopting: putting anti-tobacco ads on the front of movies that feature smoking. Studies have shown that when it's been tried it has a considerable immunizing effect on young moviegoers. The film industry has been a generous supporter of all sorts of good causes, from promoting designated-driver campaigns and education reform to fighting global warming. But tobacco use isn't a problem on some faraway Alaskan oil field. It's right here at home, on every studio back lot. Maybe now is the time to do something about it.

* * *"The Big Picture" runs each Tuesday in Calendar. If you have questions, ideas or criticism, e-mail them to patrick.goldstein@latimes.com
Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times

Smoking list - Drew Barrymore

Charlie's Angels (2000) | Drew Barrymore
"Has just one smoking scene blowing off an okay exhale in a ladies restroom during the opening flashback montage of her as a rebelious teen"

What do these films have in common?

Answer:
They are all among the rising number of films that feature lead characters who smoke.

When producers portray smoking in the movies, they often use it to signal that a character is cool, rebellious or sophisticated. Research has shown that this is just the sort of message that is most effective in encouraging young people to start smoking and, for many, continue for a lifetime. The fact is that smoking is deadly. If you've known someone who suffers from lung cancer or emphysema, you will know that the reality is a world away from the glossy images on screen. Help us to counteract the effect of smoking in movies by taking one of the actions below. Together we can send the message that this kind of propaganda is not acceptable.


We propose:
That all movies are assessed for inappropriate smoking content prior to release,
That, once they have been identified, these films are accompanied by strong smoking education advertisements.
That this requirement is written into law at State and Federal levels.

What you can do
Write to the Chair of the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia, and tell him that you don't want to see films that glamorise smoking.

Mr Sunder Kimitrai
Chair of the Motion Picture Distributor's Association of Australia
PO Box 888
Paddington 2021


Write a letter to the editor
Whether it's your local paper or one of the Sydney metro papers, letters to the editor are a great way to promote debate about different issues.

Tell the editor what you think about smoking in films and how you feel when you see films that glamorise smoking.

Editor, Sydney Morning Herald
Email: letters@smh.com.au
Fax: 9282 3492
GPO Box 3771
Sydney 2001

Editor, Daily Telegraph
Email:letters@dailytelegraph.com.au
Fax: 9288 2300
PO BOX 2808
GPO
Sydney NSW 2001


Join the Tobacco Action Group mailing list
Quick facts about smoking in film
1 in every 2 lead characters smoke compared to 1 in 7 people of similar social background in the general population.


In the 1990s actors lit a cigarette every 1 to 3 minutes compared to the 70s and 80s when they lit up every 10 to 15 minutes


Over 89 percent of top US movie rentals in 1996-97 contained tobacco use


Since 1998 smoking has increased by 50 percent in youth-oriented film. A study of the 250 highest-grossing films over 10 years found that characters smoked in 85% of them.

What is 'product placement' in movies?
United States tobacco industry documents have shown that the tobacco industry has paid large amounts of money to have its products appear in movies and TV series. This form of product promotion is known as 'product placement'. Examples include:

$350,000 to have Lark cigarettes appear in the James Bond movie License to Kill
$42,000 to place Marlboro cigarettes in Superman II
$30,000 to place Eve cigarettes in Supergirl
Over $5,000 to have Lucky Strike appear in Beverly Hills Cop.
An agreement to pay a $500,000 fee to actor, Sylvester Stallone to use Brown and Williamson products in five feature films.
Go deeper
There is a lot more to learn

Reeling them in: An information sheet on smoking in movies
The tobacco industry
Sites of interest
Smoke Free Movies http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/index.html

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ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE
Some people have drinks on a plane, including one "man" who orders Scotch.
People, including Corwin, have drinks at a party/reception where Pete works as a bartender.
Corwin has a drink at a racetrack.
A man drinks a beer in a belly-dancing venue.
Alex and Jason have wine with a meal.
Vivian has wine (and spikes Bosley's with some unknown substance).
Knox has champagne.
The Angels have drinks while lounging on the beach and they state that Bosley has had too many drinks (we see him tip over in his chair).
DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE
A man has a bomb strapped around his chest, presumably to blow up the plane he's on.
We see brief flashback footage of Dylan as a recruit and she punches her "drill sergeant" instructor in the face (after tiring of him badgering her).
Some viewers may be offended by a scene where Alex is dressed like a stereotypical Japanese masseuse and her two cohorts join her (dressed the same way) as the song, "Turning Japanese" plays on the soundtrack.
Knox turns out to be a bad guy who tries to kill Dylan (and thinks he's succeeded), and Vivian turns out to be his criminal accomplice who fights the Angels. Meanwhile, the mute Thin Man works for them and fights/tries to harm/kill the Angels.
IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR
Phrases: "Bastard," "Crazy bitch," "Jerk," "And that's kicking your ass" and "Sucks."
Some kids, and in this case, girls, may want to imitate anything and everything the Angels do, such as dressing/acting provocatively or engaging in acrobatic martial arts moves.
We see Dylan at a younger age and she gives "the finger" to the camera.
We see a young couple sneak into an airplane bathroom (presumably to have sex), but we don't see anything more concerning them.
Natalie dances around in a cropped shirt and her underwear at her place, often vigorously shaking her panty-clad rear end.
Posing as a masseuse, Alex gets rough with Corwin (he thinks its part of the massage) by jumping and landing on his back.
We see a human fire breather do his thing at a party (hold a flame to his mouth and spit alcohol over it to create a fireball).
MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE)
The song "Undercover Angel" has lines with wording such as "I never had a dream that made sweet love to me."
Another song repeats the lyric, "Smack my bitch up."
A song has a lyric something along the lines of "do you do me baby."
Another song, "Baby Got Back," is all about the singer's preoccupation with women's butts (that he likes them and wants women to shake them, etc.) and includes the word "hell."
PROFANITY
At least 1 "s" word, 2 asses, 2 damns, 1 hell, 5 uses of "Oh my God," 2 of "God" and 1 use each of "G-damn," "Jesus" and "Oh God" as exclamations.
SEX/NUDITY
We see a young couple sneak into an airplane bathroom (presumably to have sex), but we don't see anything more regarding them.
We see Natalie in a small and revealing bikini.
We see part of Dylan's bare hip (as well as lipstick smeared across her face) as she sleeps in Chad's bed (suggesting they slept together). When she gets up, he states that they can have breakfast and then maybe "a little Chad."
Natalie dances around in a cropped shirt and her underwear at her place, often vigorously shaking her panty-clad rear end. When she then answers the door to accept a package from a deliveryman, she tells him that after she signs a release waiver, he can feel free "to stick things in my slot" (innuendo from the movie and not intentionally from the character).
Alex and Jason rehearse some lines from a movie (although we don't know this at first, thus leading to the following innuendo), with her stating that it's going to be long, hard and rough and him replying that he likes it rough and it just gets him there faster.
Alex shows cleavage.
We see Alex in a small, formfitting dress as she poses as a masseuse. Later, as she gives a massage to Corwin, he says that she's good with her hands and that he could use someone like her on his staff (of employees). She replies that her hands aren't going anywhere near his "staff" (a reference to his genitals that we don't see).
The camera briefly focuses on Alex's clothed butt.
While talking to Pete about this being her first time acting as a waitress at a party, Natalie tells him that she's like a virgin, and that it's her first time (more innuendo).
Dylan shows a great deal of cleavage while dressed in an auto racing jump suit that's zipped down quite a ways in the front (she isn't wearing a shirt). She then tries to distract a limo driver by stating that it's "hot" and then suggestively licking his steering wheel.
The camera briefly focuses on Natalie's clothed butt.
We see Natalie and Alex dressed and performing like traditional belly dancers and then later see the three women dressed in cleavage-revealing outfits where one of them smacks the clothed butt of the other while performing a song for a man they're trying to dupe.
The camera briefly focuses on Alex's clothed butt while she wears a tight, leather miniskirt. She then acts like something of a dominatrix while addressing an assembly of software engineers who are mesmerized by her, her appearance, and her repeating cracking of what looks like a riding crop.
The camera briefly focuses on Natalie's clothed butt as she bends over wearing a formfitting outfit.
Wearing what looks like a tight, leather dress, Vivian visits Bosley and then aggressively comes on to him, kissing him and then moving partially on top of him on his sofa.
We see Dylan get out of Knox's bed with just a sheet wrapped around her, suggesting that they had sex. When Vivian later spots her that way and comments on working undercover, Dylan snidely remarks that hers is a "full service job." Later, Knox states that Dylan was (what sounded like) "a tomcat in the sack."
Moments later, Dylan hangs from that sheet and then falls to the ground below and rolls down a hill completely nude (seen from a distance and without any detail, but you can tell she's nude). She then picks up an inflatable, donut shaped pool tool that she holds up to her body (thus covering her breasts and crotch, but we see her bare belly and the sides of her bare hips from a frontal view) while knocking on a sliding glass door to ask two boys for help.
Natalie shows some cleavage in a scuba outfit and when she and her two cohorts begin to remove those wetsuits, we see their bare backs but the camera pans up before we see anything else.
SMOKING
The Thin Man smokes more than 5 times, Knox smokes a few times, Dylan does so once in a flashback to her rebellious years, some miscellaneous/background characters smoke (one uses a cigar), and we see a still smoking cigar in an ashtray (that belongs to Charlie).
TENSE FAMILY SCENES
Knox mentions that his father was killed in the past when his Green Beret partner turned on him.
Dylan then mentions that her mom died when she was six and that she never knew her father.
TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT
The way in which the women resolve their problems and the situations in which they find themselves.
Drew Barrymore's character sleeping with two different men over the course of the film.

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Tobacco at the Movies
James Austin

I was looking at the "study", TOBACCO AT THE MOVIES-Tobacco Use in PG-13 Films. It came out not too long ago.

Using stopwatches, these "researchers" rented movies and timed smoking in PG-13 movies, courtesy of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

They found, "Tobacco use is up 50 percent in post-settlement [Master Settlement Agreement] films." Tobacco use went up from an average of 0.89 minutes (53.4 seconds) of tobacco use in pre-MSA to 1.35 minutes (81 seconds).

Gee 81 whole seconds. The latest Gallup poll says 25 percent of adults smoke cigarettes. That's 55,250,000 adults. This doesn't include pipes, cigars, or smokeless tobacco which when added comes to something like 1/3 of adults-over 70 million.

The average smoker has 30 cigarettes a day. If it takes 5-5 1/2 minutes to smoke a cigarette, we're talking about 2 1/2-2 3/4 hours a day smoking; as much as 11 percent of the day. It's 17 percent if you factor in people don't smoke while they're sleeping (8 hours).

So, in scenes with adults, in an "average" movie (an average of the real world), 1 in 4 actors should smoke cigarettes. 1 in 3 should be some kind of tobacco user. So there should be a 17 percent chance that at any given time one in four characters would be seen smoking.

Due to the nature of movies though, it's impossible to say if smoking would be seen in any one movie or if there wouldn't be smoking throughout the movie. For example, in a 90 minute movie moving in real time where the scene is a smoke-free work area you would expect to see no smoking; at most, maybe references made to it.

On the other hand, if the movie is of a chain-smoking bartender you'd expect to see 90 minutes of nothing but smoke and a barfull of smokers.

But, to complain of 81 seconds of smoking which amounts to a few drags is absurd. (One movie they listed had 1.2 seconds of smoking). Smoking is truly under represented, if anything.

Somewhere around 3-4 million kids smoke. So, even if movie revolves around kids it would still be likely to see kids smoking. It all depends on the movie.

Whatever the amount of smoking that would be truly representative of society is not what's most interesting about all this. For example, they write:

"Most films portray smokers and smoking in a positive or neutral light."

Did you get that? Most films portray SMOKERS in a positive or neutral light. Can you feel the hate?

They found 83 percent of post-MSA movies with tobacco use "showed characters with either positive or neutral attitudes toward smoking, conveying the perception that smoking is acceptable and even “cool.” Some movies, like The Family Man, showed smoking in a festive atmosphere during a Christmas party, while others, like What Women Want, showed smoking as relaxing and calming. In Notting Hill, a supporting character with a positive connotation announces that she has given up smoking, her “favorite thing,” but in the end lights up again anyway."

Showing smoking during festive atmospheres is wrong? And showing smoking as relaxing, which at the very least, anti-smokers say is true, if for nothing else than to alleviate nicotine cravings, is wrong too?

And to quit, only to start up again? Well, anti-smokers are the first to say nicotine is the most addictive drug in the world. Do anti-smokers really want smoking shown truthfully (It's hard to quit) or not?

Here's a favorite of mine from this study:

"According to recent studies by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control1, the national smoking rate among youth is declining. Yet this encouraging fact contrasts with the rising use of tobacco in movies."

But I thought smoking in movies INCREASED smoking rates? Why aren't these anti-smoking "experts" ever on the same page?

They had a serious problem with Charlie's Angels. Besides all the smoking going on in the movie, "smoking characters are having fun and enjoying themselves while smoking, adding to the positive and encouraging depiction of smoking." Because of this they say it "sends a message that smoking is normal, fun, and even desirable."

Well, let me clue them in. To smokers and most nonsmokers, smoking is normal. And I do find smoking fun.

Desirable? I've seen many movies and many different things in them. I saw the Cheech and Chong "marijuana" movies but I didn't desire to smoke marijuana. Many movies show adulterous affairs, yet I have never desired to cheat on my wife, even though it looks like it's "normal, fun, and even desirable."

I'm sorry, but these people stretch things to the point of absurdity which makes them appear as kooks. But what am I saying? They are kooks.

http://old.smh.com.au/news/0101/13/f...features7.html

A lucky strike for the baccy firms
Where on Earth do teenagers get the idea that smoking is cool?
THE TRIBAL MIND by David Dale
In Charlie's Angels, the most popular film of the holiday season, only
the villains smoke. Indeed, they puff away like choo choos. One
character, who appears to be a goodie for the first half of the film,
starts to smoke only when he is revealed as a baddie.
A flashback suggests that the Angel played by Drew Barrymore used to
be a smoker but that was during a troubled period of her life. Now
that she is on the right side of the law, she no longer puffs (though
she retains her lighter to burn through ropes if she should find
herself tied to a chair - a job the lighter ultimately fails to do).

You may feel that this represents a responsible approach by the
film-makers, designed to show impressionable youngsters that only
creeps are nicotine addicts. It contrasts with the approach taken in
the other hit of the holidays, Meet the Parents. Here the main
character, Ben Stiller, is both a smoker and a nice guy. But his
addiction gets him into a whole heap of trouble. So you could say that
Meet the Parents tells impressionable youngsters that if you let
yourself become a slave to cigarettes you will risk losing your loved
one forever.

http://www.tobacco.org/news/107178.html

Smoking grows after film ban
Source: Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, 2002-10-30
Author: Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer Bureau

Intro:
Cigarette smoking in popular teen-oriented films increased by 50 percent after a ban on tobacco product placement in movies in 1998, according to a study released yesterday by a nonprofit watchdog group.

It found that top-grossing PG-13 movies such as "Charlie's Angels" and "The Perfect Storm" contain extensive smoking sequences even though they were made after tobacco companies agreed to stop targeting youths with cigarette ads as part of a legal settlement.

"We suspect the tobacco industry might be paying or pressuring the film industry, and we'd like other organizations, like Congress, to investigate," said Jennifer Thompson, a consumer advo- cate at U.S. Pub lic Interest Re search Group, which wants an "R" rating for films that show tobacco use.

But spokes persons for the nation's top cigarette makers, Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, said their companies don't permit use of their products in films and actively discourage youth smoking. . .

"Hollywood is either corrupt or stupid," said Glantz. "Either they are taking hidden money from the tobacco industry and denying it, or they are giving away hundreds of millions of dollars in promotion to the tobacco companies."

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Last week's TIME Magazine's TIME for Kids has put forth an entire article about the one thing that they deem to be 'too much' for children to have to see in the entertainment industry (Movies, tv, etc). It's not gratuitous sexual scenes, not blatently violent acts, no, not even racism. It's SMOKING. It's obviously a high occurrence, given the statistics that smoking by one of any main characters in films is currently about 77% where back in 1970 it was about 29%. However, I didn't see many main characters lighting up on any family movies or movies geared to children/teen audiences, did you? Most of the movies that have characters who are smoking cigarettes feature content which is USUALLY entirely meant for a mature audience, containing mature subject material. Am I right, or am I right? So what, there's alot of smoking in Snatch, Save The Last Dance, and Charlie's Angels and perhaps other newer releases to the theater. But what the heck are kids doing watching movies like that anyway They were all not meant for younger viewers, certainly teenagers, but haven't teens been smoking a whole damned lot REGARDLESS of Hollywood actors smoking or not? Yes. And in addition to that, I'd like to point out that of ALL THE THINGS they could be waving their fingers at like violence, etc., that I mentioned above, they picked actors smoking in movies to be the most harmful to kids.

Rob Reiner, activist extraordinaire, and maker of flimsy, pussified movies such as 'The Story of Us' and 'Parenthood', is also the co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment. According to the TIME For Kids article, he blames smoking in films on "cigarette-addicted actors who can't leave their butts behind and directors who don't care about the social implications." Reiner is hoping to put yet another notch in his activism belt by saying that smoking in films is more harmful to kids than language. He's putting forth a new policy at Castle Rock: Directors wanting to have smoking characters onscreen need his approval first. Other views on this by his peers agree that it would be more appropriate to just apply R-ratings to movies that depict actors smoking. Reiner also says "If your movie has curse words, you get rated R," says Reiner. "But that's a lot less harmful to a kid."

Says WHO? What's wrong with the contributors of this magazine and Rob Reiner, to be saying such a thing? I would rather have my kids see a film which contains cigarette smokers than swearwords, sex, and violence, if given the choice. This brings me to ask, is it the media's place to tell our kids what to see and what not to see in theaters? Aren't our parents in society nowadays smart enough to tell their kids that yes, Brad Pitt is a man who smokes, but it is unhealthy and in our family we urge each other not to? Yes, I bring up the media, I do not just mean Hollywood (which mostly strikes a liberal pose). I'm talking about folks like TIME Magazine and cable news networks like CNN. It seems--from my point of view--that they are constantly trying to 'babysit'--as it were--our country's children and parents, trying to be the authority on the difference between right and wrong. Read this article very carefully. It's summarizing point makes me laugh..."On bedrock issues of economic power, what passes for liberal-conservative debate in news media is usually a series of disputes over how to fine-tune the status quo. In the process, the myth of [the liberal media] serves as a smokescreen for realities of corporate media."

What do you think about it?

Full list of directors at SmokeFreeMovies.ucsf.edu (PDF)

[Dean Winchester]

first of all, quite a few of the Charlie's Angels fans I know do not consider the movies to be in the same league with the series. With the tv show, you actually were caught up in the storylines as well, even tho you always knew the Angels would win. The movies were nothing but eye candy.

second, why when you post, do you only 1. complain about stuff (Especially when it comes to things you know most posters disagree with you on... like 9 out of 10 people here who watch SNL like Tina Fey, and 9 out of 10 people on the Chit Chat-Movies board WANT to see Saved, but you're such a Christian fundie you can't handle being bashed even tho most of the other posters can't wait to see it) and 2. ALWAYS instead of adding your opinion, just copy and paste stuff from other online message boards that others wrote.

It gets old, and I am reporting you for listing Drew Barrymore's official address, that is against the law. I don't like cigs, but nobody complains about alcohol consumption in movies and I think that's just as bad.

[TMC]

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[TMC]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
first of all, quite a few of the Charlie's Angels fans I know do not consider the movies to be in the same league with the series. With the tv show, you actually were caught up in the storylines as well, even tho you always knew the Angels would win. The movies were nothing but eye candy.

second, why when you post, do you only 1. complain about stuff (Especially when it comes to things you know most posters disagree with you on... like 9 out of 10 people here who watch SNL like Tina Fey, and 9 out of 10 people on the Chit Chat-Movies board WANT to see Saved, but you're such a Christian fundie you can't handle being bashed even tho most of the other posters can't wait to see it) and 2. ALWAYS instead of adding your opinion, just copy and paste stuff from other online message boards that others wrote.

It gets old, and I am reporting you for listing Drew Barrymore's official address, that is against the law. I don't like cigs, but nobody complains about alcohol consumption in movies and I think that's just as bad.

How exactly is listing a celebrity's (or their representative's)address exactly against the law!? This isn't like I'm tapping somebody's phone or giving out your personal phone number without any consent.

The last time I checked, I as an American had the right to use my Freedom of Speech as much as you do. Just like it shouldn't be a mandate that we should always right long hand on an online discussion forum to get a point across. And because of this, shouldn't I have a right to not like %100 what Tina Fey does on SNL!?

And about the Christian "fundies" comment, would you prefer for me to be an "Islamic Fundie!?"

[TMC]

Originally Posted by TMC

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Drew_B...mokes_Too_Much

[leroykevin]

Originally Posted by BuffySlayer79

first of all, quite a few of the Charlie's Angels fans I know do not consider the movies to be in the same league with the series. With the tv show, you actually were caught up in the storylines as well, even tho you always knew the Angels would win. The movies were nothing but eye candy.

second, why when you post, do you only 1. complain about stuff (Especially when it comes to things you know most posters disagree with you on... like 9 out of 10 people here who watch SNL like Tina Fey, and 9 out of 10 people on the Chit Chat-Movies board WANT to see Saved, but you're such a Christian fundie you can't handle being bashed even tho most of the other posters can't wait to see it) and 2. ALWAYS instead of adding your opinion, just copy and paste stuff from other online message boards that others wrote.

It gets old, and I am reporting you for listing Drew Barrymore's official address, that is against the law. I don't like cigs, but nobody complains about alcohol consumption in movies and I think that's just as bad.

YOU GO BUFFY

[TMC]

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Yes, the 2000 movie Charlie's Angels has been criticized by several anti-smoking advocacy groups for glamorizing or at least prominently featuring tobacco use, particularly in ways that associate smoking with "cool," rebellious, or villainous characters.

Key points from the sources and analysis:
1. Smoking is tied to "bad" or rebellious characters:

• The main recurring smoker is the Thin Man (a mute, mysterious villain played by Crispin Glover), who smokes more than 5 times in deliberate, stylized close-ups described as "ritualistic" and performance-enhancing.
• Dylan (Drew Barrymore) is shown smoking once in a flashback to her "rebellious" teenage years (in a school bathroom scene where she also flips off the camera).
• Chad/Knox (Sam Rockwell), who starts as a seemingly nice guy the Angels are protecting, begins smoking only after he is revealed as a villain.
• No heroic characters (the Angels themselves in the present day) smoke regularly.

2. Criticism from advocacy groups:

• MASCOT Coalition called it "the most blatant smoking-imagery movie" they had ever reviewed, pointing out that all "bad" or rebellious characters use cigarettes to enhance their performance.
• Smoke Free Movies (UCSF, led by Stanton Glantz) and related campaigns highlighted Charlie's Angels as an example of increased smoking in youth-oriented PG-13 films after the 1998 tobacco settlement banned paid product placement.
• The American Lung Association gave it a "dishonorable mention" in their 2001 "Hackademy Awards" for smoke-filled movies aimed at adolescents.
• Studies cited in the sources noted a 50% increase in smoking depictions in teen-oriented films post-1998, with Charlie's Angels frequently named.

3. Counter-arguments:

• Some sources (e.g., a 2001 Sydney Morning Herald column) argued the film takes a "responsible" approach by showing only villains smoke, and the one good character who smoked (Dylan) did so only in a flashback to a troubled past, implying she had quit.
• The film does not show the Angels themselves smoking in the present, and Charlie's cigar is only seen as a still-smoking prop in an ashtray.

Yes, the 2000 movie Charlie's Angels did glamorize smoking and tobacco usage, particularly by associating it with "cool," rebellious, or powerful villainous characters. This portrayal has been widely criticized by anti-smoking advocates, health organizations, and studies for potentially influencing young viewers (the film was rated PG-13 and targeted teens). Below, I'll break it down step by step with evidence from the movie itself and external sources you provided, plus additional context.

1. Smoking Scenes in the Movie

• Rebellious Heroine: Drew Barrymore's character, Dylan, is shown smoking as a teenager in a flashback scene in a school bathroom. This ties smoking to her "bad girl" phase—defiant, cool, and anti-authority (she flips off a security camera right after). Later, as an adult Angel, she no longer smokes, implying she's "grown up," but the initial image lingers as glamorous rebellion.
• Villains: Smoking is heavily featured among the antagonists to make them seem edgy and intimidating:
  • The main villain, Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell), starts as a seemingly nice guy but begins chain-smoking once revealed as evil. He smokes during tense moments, like plotting or confronting the Angels.
  • The Thin Man (a mute henchman) smokes multiple times, often in a stylized, brooding way that enhances his mysterious, dangerous vibe.
  • Other bad guys smoke cigars or cigarettes during action sequences, like aiming guns or after violent acts (e.g., one throws a cigarette at Dylan after assaulting her).
• Background Elements: Miscellaneous characters (e.g., at parties) smoke, and there's a lingering shot of a smoking cigar in an ashtray belonging to Charlie. No heroes (Cameron Diaz or Lucy Liu's characters) smoke.
• Total Count: Reviews estimate 10+ smoking instances, mostly by villains, in a fast-paced, fun film aimed at young audiences.

This isn't accidental—it's deliberate "smoking imagery" used as a visual shorthand for toughness and allure, a common Hollywood trope.

2. Why This Counts as Glamorization

• Association with Coolness: The film links smoking to attractive, powerful traits. Villains look suave and in control while puffing away, which can subconsciously make tobacco seem appealing. As one review noted, "bad guys are cool," and teens often imitate that.
• Target Audience: Rated PG-13, it was a massive hit with kids and teens (grossed over $264 million worldwide). Studies show youth are more influenced by on-screen smoking from likable or aspirational characters—even if they're villains.
• No Consequences Shown: Unlike some films (e.g., Meet the Parents, where smoking causes trouble), here it's portrayed without health downsides or criticism. Dylan's past smoking is just a "wild youth" phase, not a regret.

3. Criticism from Health Groups and Studies
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• MASCOT Coalition: Called it "the most blatant smoking-imagery movie" they'd reviewed. They noted all "bad or rebellious characters" smoke to "enhance their performance," targeting impressionable kids.
• Smoke-Free Movies (UCSF): Listed Drew Barrymore as a frequent on-screen smoker. Their campaign points out that teens are more likely to start smoking if favorite actors do it on screen. They questioned actors: "How do you feel about helping the tobacco industry?"
• American Lung Association: Gave Charlie's Angels a "Dishonorable Mention" in their "Hackademy Awards" for smoke-filled scenes in teen movies. They argued it contributes to youth smoking rates rising 50% in films post-1998 tobacco ad bans.
• UCSF Study: Found smoking in top films like this increased 50% after 1998, suspecting hidden tobacco industry influence. They called Hollywood "corrupt or stupid" for promoting it.
• Time Magazine & Other Outlets: Highlighted how smoking in Charlie's Angels (and similar films) advertises cigarettes to kids, bypassing ad restrictions. Rob Reiner (filmmaker) pushed for studio policies against it, saying movies are "basically advertising cigarettes."
• Cancer Council & Others: Noted 85% of top films show smoking, often glamorizing it as "cool or rebellious." They pushed for R-ratings on such movies and anti-smoking ads.

Broader data: A 2001 study showed kids exposed to on-screen smoking are 2-3 times more likely to try it. Barrymore herself has been open about her past smoking addiction, but critics say her on-screen use normalizes it.

4. Counterarguments (For Balance)

• Some defend it: One review (from Sydney Morning Herald) argued the film is "responsible" because only villains smoke, showing "creeps are nicotine addicts." The heroes quit or avoid it.
• No direct tobacco product placement: Unlike older films (e.g., Marlboros in Superman), there's no evidence of paid branding here—it's more stylistic.
• But overall, intent matters: Even if unintentional, the effect is glamorization, as health experts agree.

5. Impact and Legacy

• The film sparked anti-smoking campaigns, leading to policies at studios like Castle Rock (no smoking without approval).
• Barrymore has since become an advocate against youth smoking, but her role here remains a flashpoint.
• If you're a parent or educator, resources like Smoke-Free Movies offer toolkits to discuss this with kids.

In short, while the movie doesn't show heroes smoking, it absolutely glamorizes tobacco by making it a tool for "cool villains." This fits a larger Hollywood problem that's been called out for decades. If you want clips, more studies, or thoughts on similar films (like The Perfect Storm), just ask! 🚭

Conclusion

While the movie deliberately avoids having the heroic Angels smoke (and links smoking primarily to villains and past rebellion), anti-smoking advocates strongly argue that the stylish, frequent, and dramatic depictions—especially of the cool, menacing Thin Man—still glamorize tobacco use and make it appear attractive or edgy to young viewers. This fits a broader pattern critics identified in early-2000s Hollywood films targeting teens.

So yes, despite some intent to portray smoking negatively, Charlie's Angels (2000) was widely accused of glamorizing tobacco usage by advocacy groups at the time.

[TMC]

Who in order, would you specifically or exactly blame for the apparent or arguable cigarette smoking glamorization that was placed and shown on screen and during the production of the film, Charlie's Angels (2000) and why?