Smoke Free Movies

Each year Hollywood recruits approximately 390,000 kids to begin smoking by glamorizing smoking in movies. According to University of California professor of medicine and founder of Smoke Free Movies, Stan Glantz, this is nearly enough to replace all of the smokers who die from diseases related to tobacco use each year.

To combat this staggering statistic the New York State Department of Health and the University of California at San Francisco developed an action program, Screen Out!, for the Smoke Free Movies action network.  In October 2006, the AMA Alliance joined the AMA as well as the American Heart Association to launch a nationwide effort.

Learn more about the AMA Alliance participation in the Screen Out! Campaign. 

Click here to view the top grossing movies and the top DVD rentals for the week and whether they involve smoking. (This link will take you off the AMA Alliance Web site. The AMA Alliance is not responsible for the content of other Web sites.) 

View the "120,000 Lives A Year--The Case Against Smoking" Video.

Read an AMA Alliance letter of support for the "Screen Out" program.  

View the Smoke Free Movies ad that appeared in Variety magazine (518 KB)