Smokescreen

Today we discussed a recent scholarly study of 735 adolescents that found that boys and girls who watched a lot of R-rated movies with attractive, young characters that smoke are much more likely to take up smoking themselves, even when the results were adjusted for having a friend who smoked, lack of parental guidance and doing poorly in school. An interesting sidelight of the study, which was summarized in this Reuters article, was that white children were persuaded to smoke by watching R-rated films while Black children were not.

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