Study of Smoking in Film Clouds Issue of Artistic Freedom: ; Researchers Say Rate of Lighting Up About Same in Movies As in Society

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Smoking might be less common in movies than has been perceived, researchers have reported, adding that movie characters who do light up are more likely to be lower-class bad guys, not glamorized heroes.

By tracking the smoking habits of lead characters in 477 popular American films released from 1990 through 1998, researchers found that the smoking rate was similar to the smoking rate in the population at large: 23.3 percent in movies and 21.8 percent in real life.

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Study of Smoking in Film Clouds Issue of Artistic Freedom: ; Researchers Say Rate of Lighting Up About Same in Movies As in Society

"This is the first objective study of smoking in the movies," said the study's lead author, Dr. Karan Omidvari, a physician in the Heart and Vascular Institute at St...

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