Posted by: Shelley on 11/30/04
What a great website!
Posted by: Hoda on 12/09/04
good to know TUTD is still going!
Posted by: Gustavo on 12/10/04
Keep up the great work! This is such a great website. I can't wait to tell my friends!!! YOU ROCK!
Posted by: Stacey on 12/15/04
What a great site! So informative! I'll check here first for the 411 on Hollywood and tobacco.
Posted by: James Young on 12/17/04
Thanks for helping highlight one of the grand hypocrisies of the film industry. While many leading actors & actresses use their fame to promote other social and political views, few offer criticism of the national health problem of smoking. In an age of greater health awareness I see way too many people and teens smoking. At a time when littering is universally frowned upon, smokers are the last ones left to litter our streets. Check the numbers, what drags down our healthcare system more; "frivolous lawsuits"; or smoking related health problems?
Posted by: Vicky on 12/17/04
Smoking Kills. Spread the word. Ireland was the first country in Europe to become a smoke free zone and I built this site to help people to quit smoking. http://www.helpforsmokers.com
Posted by: Steven Newman on 12/18/04
It's about time someone called attention to smoking in movies. Actors in film are much more likely to smoke than the general population, and this needs to end. The drug-pushing on our children must stop.
Posted by: Barb Rowley on 12/20/04
I'm glad this website has been started. I remember watching "My best friend's wedding" where Julia Roberts smoked almost constantly. Now Julia Roberts commands a fee of about 20 million per film, and must have some influence. Couldn't she have said she wouldn't smoke for the part. It was disgusting to watch her smoke throughout the film. The other one who smoked constantly was Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City. Again totally unnecessary. Why is Hollywood so behind on this. I know very few people who smoke any more, and no-one would dream of smoking in my house. I only go to non-smoking restaurants. Obviously the tobacco companies must be paying large amounts of money to have their products placed in films - it's the only reason I can think of why they would keep pushing smoking in our faces when most people have quit. Keep lobbying the filmakers !!!!
Posted by: Cliff on 12/20/04
I think it is obvious that the tobacco industry pays film makers exhorbitant sums for tobacco placement in films as an effective form of advertising. This speaks volumes about the woeful lack of social concience of both industries, including most popular film stars of our day.
Posted by: Carrie Light on 12/22/04
This is a great site. Thanks for the info and keep up the good work!
Posted by: johno on 12/22/04
Great website. Smoking Sucks!
Posted by: Kendra on 01/02/05
hi I'm 11.Ilove this site.I think it's a great role model for other people, includin the ones who smoke and chew tobacco!
Posted by: Kathleen on 01/04/05
Thank you for this website. I've always disliked and resented movies with characters puffing away. I don't like to be around or see people who smoke in real life and I certainly don't want to pay money to see smoking. And now that I have a beautiful, innocent child it is my job to keep her from even seeing smoking and certainly not having it glorified in movies. This is such an obvious advertising ploy by the tobacco companies. I resent it and I will boycott movies which I know smoking occurs. Geez, it's bad enough we have to see advertiser's products such as coke, pepsi, dog food, junk food, etc. in movies. Why should we have to endure 'commercials' for cigarettes also? That's a shame about John Travolta smoking - love him, but will not see the movie because of the smoking.
Posted by: Stacie Capt on 01/05/05
I was so glad to find your site. Last year I did a piece at my theatre school regarding the need for smoking to be banned from movies. No actor worth his/her salt would need a cigarette to create a character, and the studios should stop asking them to do so. Thanks for the hard work!
Posted by: Alexa on 01/15/05
Smoking in movies should make the film rated-R. It's stupid to even put smoking in movies. Come on people there are little kids watching your movies.Hugs instead of drugs!
Posted by: Charlet on 01/17/05
It's sad to see children's movies with tobacco use. It shows a lack of creativity in American cinema. What are we teaching the future of America, that smoking kills but its ok? That's ridiculous, we need to stop misleading youth; the tobacco companies do that enough without Hollywood’s help.
Posted by: Nick on 01/17/05
Good website for a good cause. My friend and I were just talking about smoking in movies right before I read about this site in the newspaper. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Alex Mitchell on 02/01/05
nice work
Posted by: Megan on 02/09/05
What a great site! It's scary how intertwined the media and big tobacco are!
Posted by: whitney on 02/21/05
i was doing a research for my speech project, and i came apon this. i chose this subject on rated R movies and how it effects kids and teens. im only 15 and i moved out here to CC texas from california, i have not once been asked to try drugs until i moved out here. i hate drugs its no use to even waste my tim on them. its stupid to even try it.
Posted by: Susie McNally on 02/28/05
Glad to see you spotlighted on PARTNERS.
Posted by: Susie McNally on 02/28/05
Glad to see you spotlighted on PARTNERS.
Posted by: on 03/01/05
everyone who smokes could learn alot of facts on this website
Posted by: Steve on 03/27/05
Why would a studio want to diminish its audience? Why does John Travolta smoke in every movie? This site definitely influence our choices. How about listing all current movies, not just top ten?
Posted by: on 03/28/05
Click on the searchable database (on the Screen the Scene page) to find reviews for more than the current week's Top 10!
Posted by: Claudia on 04/05/05
Great website!
Posted by: dana on 04/13/05
this site is awsome! some peeps really auta check it out! how bout some ways to help peeps who already smoke?
Posted by: Leigh Rogers on 04/17/05
Great job keep up the great work.
Posted by: Susana Coffey on 04/23/05
From Argentina, go on , we hope to stop this terrible industries!!!!
Posted by: ping pong changon 05/04/05
hello, i was reading your site because i had to. i was glad that i had too because i learned about smoking make more sites like this its helps young ppl...thxs ping pong chang
Posted by: Dana on 05/04/05
hey this is a nice website i hope it helps alot of the people who look at it to quit smoking and i think they need to take out a lot of the smoking scenes in movies i will check back with u later and thank you
Posted by: Dana Robinson on 05/04/05
hey this is a nice site. I hope the people who check this out quit smoking. I think they should try and stop putting so many smoking scenes in the movies. well I will check back with you later .
Posted by: Dan on 05/15/05
I'm all for the R rating with tobacco use. After all, in most states, you can't buy tobacco unless you're 18, so its use must be limited to adult movies as well. A minor can buy condoms at any age but can't watch a movie portraying sex without an adult. But tobacco use is portrayed in any movie rating when minors can't buy tobacco (which is appropriate). What's wrong with this picture???
Posted by: alyssa on 05/18/05
great web site!
Posted by: Fox on 06/30/05
My wife and I have noticed a sharp increase in the number of movie stars lighting up in movies lately. We assume it is due to heavy revenue from the tobacco corporations. Nothing ruins a scene for us more than seeing a character smoking.
Posted by: Mark Watson on 07/24/05
Congratulations on the new layout. Keep it up to date as a celebrity :)
Posted by: MARK SMITH on 08/12/05
YOU HAVE AN EXCELLENT WEBSITE.
Posted by: Ruby Caspescha on 08/12/05
My 34 year old son is a smoker and I am just beginning to understand what encouraged him to pick up the habit. It is because he was and still is a big movie goer. I am a nurse and have seen way too many people suffer the consequences of cigarette smoke and premature death.
Posted by: Kim Brogan on 08/12/05
Lost my Mom to smoking...get sick when I see it in movies.
Posted by: Larry Gleaves on 08/20/05
Is there a more worthy cause than to save lives? Thank you for your website. It is invaluable.
Posted by: Jack on 08/23/05
This needs to become a revolution!
Posted by: upset on 08/24/05
i lost my dad to smoking but i don't blame anyone! not the companies, movies, anything! I just live with it i learned to live with his death and i don't regret any of his decisions. that was his choice and although it killed him, it never has bothered me. So why don't you stop crying and move on. Life goes on after death! it is their choice not yours. If you smoke you smoke. deal with it! If i child wants to smoke because of a movie than they should just smoke if their brains are molded that easily! Plain and simple! Weed out the strong from the weak minded.
Posted by: Anne on 08/24/05
Did not know that so many youth are affected by this epidemic! Great site!
Posted by: Smoking Facts on 09/05/05
This site is smokin'! Keep up the cool graphicks.
Posted by: TiFFiE on 10/06/05
YAY!! I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Posted by: kami on 10/06/05
this website really made me think before i started smoking thank you for your help
Posted by: Kevin on 10/12/05
Excellant website. I'll be back for sure. awesumtenor@yahoo.com
Posted by: Kasey Vierra on 10/25/05
This site is awsome i did not relize how much smoking there was in these recent movies. This site is doing an awsome job keep up the good work.
Posted by: Scott Schaedel on 11/07/05
When I see gratuitous smoking in films, I can only wonder, "what were they thinking"? Smoking truly stinks.
Posted by: Alyssa on 11/15/05
This is a very good website for kids who are smoking you should have a cermical for it!
Posted by: anonymous on 11/29/05
great site. keep up the good work!
Posted by: Marie on 11/30/05
this was a VERY helpful website for my social studies fair project! its awesome!
Posted by: person on 12/01/05
This is a great site! It's very informative and ill definitely be back soon!You guys are doing a great job. Keep spreading the word!
Posted by: Bob Gregory on 12/06/05
I think we need to address the root cause of the issue - tobacco companies arepaying studios huge sums of money for this powerful form of advertising. Is there anyway to expose this information? The tobacco company settlement covered a range of things they must do and put an end to litigation. This is clearly a loophole in the settlement that is being exploited and circumvents the ban on advertising to children (ala Joe Camel). Think about it - DOES ANYBODY WANT THEIR OWN KIDS TO BEGIN SMOKING??? Studio execs, tobacco company execs alike - it's unthinkable this form of advertising continues. How can I help further this cause? Philip Morris spends millions in mailings to convince people things are changing in the tobacco industry - their participation in funding smoking in movies is completely hypocritical. Let's stop it at the source - the funding - then hollywood's addiction to the $$ will diminish, as will their affinity to showing smoking scenes in almost every movie - most of which are contrived and don't fit the scene. I feel extremely strongly about this issue and I'm willing to help. I lost a sister at age 41 who smoked for almost 30 years to lung cancer and lost a parent & grandparent to emphysema. It's time for this to end!
Posted by: William Johnsonon 12/11/05
I found your web site excellent and would like to have my e mail added to your web site to receive future mailings. Thank you very much.
Posted by: deneglka on 01/08/06
Cool site of course people!
Posted by: deneglka on 01/11/06
Cool site of course people!
Posted by: Amanda on 01/24/06
I love your work! Keep it up! You guys are awesome!
Posted by: John Wohlgemuthon 02/02/06
Thanks for the great resource! I'm always looking for movies showing pipe smoking characters, and now there's a database that serves my needs! Keep up the great work!
Posted by: michelle on 02/05/06
nice web-site, definitly check out the quizes, I got 5 out of 5!
Posted by: Ruth Witty on 02/09/06
Are there movie stars who refuse to smoke in movies. There are plenty who espouse progressive political causes Susan Sarandon and Robert Redford come to mind, if big enough stars refused to take part in a smoking movie perhaps things would change.
Posted by: Maria on 02/09/06
this is a great website to keep people from smoking even though i already do. i didn't learn from the movies, it is my parents and my friends that give you, as my sister in law says" peer and elder pressure". if u look up to them, u pretty much will do ne for them or with them.
Posted by: Errol E. Povah on 02/11/06
Great site! I only became aware of it after reading an article (in my local [Vancouver, B.C.] newspaper today) entitled, "You can vote on which movies most glamorize smoking." Of the movies listed, I've only seen two of them and, quite frankly, that was so long ago that I don't clearly remember much about the smoking in them. All of that said (and bearing in mind that it's my understanding that your efforts are aimed almost exclusively at the same group that the nicotine cartel targets...kids), my girlfriend and I recently saw Brokeback Mountain...and it's a "smokefest" from beginning to end (I didn't use a stopwatch but I'm sure that less than thirty seconds into the movie, one of the main characters is firing up a butt!)! Coincidentally, the preview that immediately preceded the movie was for "Thank You For Smoking." I haven't seen it yet, but I don't think we should be too quick to judge it. Initially, I thought it would be nothing more than a 2-hour cigarette ad, but I have to say: Based on the very limited info provided by the preview, I sensed that while it's clearly about tobacco, smoking, tobacco executives, etc., they laugh and mock themselves and are, in fact, much more on our side than one might expect. In any case, keep up the great work...and I look forward to finding out who the winners (read, "losers") of the Hackademy Awards are. P.S. I do hope Mel Gibson is honoured somehow. A few years ago, when the effort to ban smoking in movies was in the news, Gibson and Julia Roberts were leaving some movie premiere together...and Gibson was questioned about the smoking ban by an entertainment reporter. He scoffed at it...and suggested that us anti-tobacco people were all idiots, we needed to 'get a life', etc. Sincerely, Errol E. Povah President, Airspace Action on Smoking & Health Please check out the following sites: www.airspace.bc.ca www.grimreaper.org
Posted by: Kevin Furlong on 02/21/06
I can appreciate what this website is trying to do; however, it is extremely one sided. I don't think there's some huge conspiracy theory that tobacco lobbyists are paying movie producers and directors to put cigarettes/tobacco smoking in their flicks. It's personal choice on whoever writes the script - this is America, approximately 24% of people smoke. I think these movies are trying to be a little more realistic. A movie scene in a bar - are there smokers in bars in real life? Of course. Hugh Jackman, playing Wolverine, smoking a cigar - it's one of his trademarks. I don't believe kids are so easily influenced into smoking as this website portrays - kids' parents should be their first line of defense. Saying that every other kid is gonna start smoking because they saw it in a movie just insults adolescent's intelligence everywhere. I hope this entry actually makes it in. :) Again - props to this website for bringing smoking AWARENESS to more people.
Posted by: Anne Jones on 02/26/06
Just saw "Goodnight and Goodbye" and felt breathless (but not with excitement) watching the wall to wall smoking including the imbedded Kent cigarette advert.
Posted by: brittany on 03/08/06
great job with the site. keep up the good work!
Posted by: tony reus on 03/09/06
high time to stop their insidious perpetrations
Posted by: Free Kid Game on 03/20/06
I wandered into site from a google and enjoyed.
Posted by: Kaitlyn Huyck on 03/21/06
I liked the quiz. Where was the smoking in Your's,Mine and Ours? I've seen that movie about ten times.
Posted by: Carolyn on 03/21/06
The smoking in Yours, Mine, and Ours is more of an implied smoking incident, with an anti-message all in one. Towards the end of the movie, the character Christina attends a party where she is hit on by her sister's "boyfriend". Enraged that he is trying to cheat on her sister with her she goes to throw a bowl of punch on his head. In that bowl is a large quantity of cigarette butts, which implies teenagers have been smoking at the party. However, upon seeing the cigarette butts she says "eww, gross" and then throws the butts & the punch on his head. Therefore TUTD awarded the movie an overall anti message, but because of the cigarette butts it narrowly missed a pink lung.
Posted by: Kenzie on 03/30/06
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Posted by: Alena on 04/17/06
you have very nice guestbook and website
Posted by: Hillary on 04/26/06
This web site helped me get a A- on my movie smoking influence poster!!!
Posted by: Barbara age 59 on 05/01/06
Okay, I can already see you people deleting this post into your guestbook, because what else will you do with a voice that doesn't agree with your "cause". My opinion: the people that created this site, must really have to have a lot of free time with which they don't have anything to do. Go clean the house or wash the dishes, better than do this. Honestly, do you think you'll change anything? You know why there are so many smoking scenes in movies? Because although all the talk about sickness, cancer and etc. it still looks good on the screen. I builds climate just like many other things on the screen. As for this webpage, do you really think you can stop teens from smoking? If they'll want to smoke, they'll smoke nomather what you do. I'm 59, I earn about 40 thousand a month, I have my own company and I have a 16 year old daughter that smokes, and from what I know she smokes about 5-7 cigarettes a day. You probably think, why don't I stop her if I know what she's doing? Simple, I'm not a hypocrite. I smoke since I was 17. You probably think that now I have wrinkled skin, yellow teeth and look like I was 80. I'm sorry but I don't. I don't have wrinkles except a few (I never had any plastic surgery, so 1 or 2 are unavoidable at my age), I have white teeth and people say that I look like I was 35 and I definitely don't have lung cancer. My advice to you, creators of this page: GET A LIFE!
Posted by: Madelyn Nash on 05/19/06
Great site. Lots of good resources.
Posted by: Buy Xanax on 05/20/06
Nice and very elegant website but more updating will be good
Posted by: Lisa on 06/23/06
Thank you! It is so nice to know smoking will be in a movie BEFORE I waste my money on it!
Posted by: K Kauffman on 07/10/06
What a great website with lots of ways to take action!!!
Posted by: Andrea on 11/30/06
It's great to see that someone is promoting this
Posted by: Monica Lynn on 11/30/06
Hello, Your website is very cool because it deals with things that are very important t
Posted by: on 02/08/07
I love this site. Not only do I get to know more about the movies but conversation regarding smoking in movies is "sparked". I can educate more people about how smoking in entertainment productions may encourage young people to pick up a deadly habit. Thanks TUTD!
Posted by: Dolce on 03/23/07
Nice Site!!! (p)h
Posted by: Lon Kost on 03/29/07
Usefull information and all is good arranged. Just want to say that I find your site enough interesting for me.
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Posted by: Lon Kost on 03/30/07
Usefull information and all is good arranged. Just want to say that I find your site enough interesting for me.
Posted by: Aubrie on 04/09/07
i'm doing a project that states that smoking in movies is a major influence for people to start smoking. I'm going to use facts from this site.
Posted by: Cozaar on 04/12/07
I have already enjoy your website, and it is so nice and cool. I will visit your website again. Please more updates
Posted by: alex on 04/13/07
hi nice site.
Posted by: alex on 04/15/07
hi nice site.
Posted by: Alex on 04/23/07
Thank You
Posted by: johnny crow on 04/30/07
I do not like smoking.
Posted by: Henry on 05/04/07
A good website. Shows that how you can change the world by not smoking or something like that.
Posted by: Alfred on 05/05/07
Nice site!
Posted by: Mark on 05/10/07
This is a great site!
Posted by: Melissa (Mel) on 05/12/07
I am behind this quest 100%!!!
Posted by: Edwin on 05/14/07
Yes, smoking kills. And yes, it shouldn't be glamorized in movies. But no, it shouldn't be removed from movies completely. Movies tell stories about people, life and the world. Some people smoke, so in movies, some people should smoke too. Don't get me wrong, I really hate smoking. Still, we shouldn't convert movies into fairy tales.
Posted by: Bede on 05/19/07
O, super project. Yes! so hold.
Posted by: Florence on 05/20/07
Good job! Your site is great!
Posted by: Lambro on 05/25/07
thanks for letting me view your guest book and giving me all the information
Posted by: Joey on 05/25/07
It's such a shame to see that people of hollywood are slowly killing themselves to promote the death of our youth. I try and only watch the movies with light grey or pink lungs. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Samaras on 05/26/07
This is a cool site! Thanks and wish you better luck! Brilliant but simple idea.
Posted by: James on 06/05/07
Thanks for your project. I like this site. KEEP IT UP...
Posted by: sabel4 on 06/08/07
Yes because surely if we remove smoking from movies, nobody will ever start smoking again. And of course, it won't start a forbidden fruit aspect to films. After all, pot is highly discouraged and NOBODY EVER SMOKE IT. :p
Posted by: Synical on 06/12/07
Terrible site, you give away the ends of movies (see Disturbia) and you bad mouth perfectly good movies and you steer people away from good movies because they had the gall to smoke in it!!! Who do you people think you are? And no i dont work for a ciggy company, im 15.
Posted by: Zach on 06/12/07
I can't believe that you would advise people not to see movies because someone smokes in them!!! So other than the evil little smoking scene, it could be the best movie in the world, but YOU are telling the hundreds of gullible people that visit this site ever day not to go and see it. Personally I think that your site provides people with a biased view and certainly doesn't provide people with accurate movie reviews. Also your facts are wrong, 340 is the 'projected' average. In actual fact about 290 young people die each day from smoking RELATED diseases. No one actually dies from simply having a ciggy. So please, get your facts right before you look silly...
Posted by: Zach on 06/12/07
I can't believe that you would advise people not to see movies because someone smokes in them!!! So other than the evil little smoking scene, it could be the best movie in the world, but YOU are telling the hundreds of gullible people that visit this site ever day not to go and see it. Personally I think that your site provides people with a biased view and certainly doesn't provide people with accurate movie reviews. Also your facts are wrong, 340 is the 'projected' average. In actual fact about 290 young people die each day from smoking RELATED diseases. No one actually dies from simply having a ciggy. So please, get your facts right before you look silly...
Posted by: Zach on 06/13/07
Your facts are wrong. 300 people die from smoking each day, not 300 young people. only 15% of movies feature actors/actresses who are paid to smoke. Also you are telling people not to go and see movies because they have people smoking in them. That is plain stupid. And no I don't work for a tabacco company, I'm 15.
Posted by: Mary on 06/28/07
Looking for information and found it at this great site.
Posted by: neraka on 07/14/07
I am really excited. Very useful. All the best!
Posted by: Agata on 07/21/07
nice project with good design and pictures...best wishes...;-)) ;)
Posted by: maghen on 07/24/07
great site. i think what you're doing is great. the info was very helpful for my report.
Posted by: Beth and Lucas on 07/30/07
Zach, We aren’t saying that 300 young people die from smoking everyday; we are saying that 300 young people who start smoking everyday will die early because they picked up the habit. The facts are undeniable – tobacco products are very addictive and cause serious health problems, tobacco is not only the number one cause of lung disease in the US, but also the number one preventable cause of death in the US. Even one person dying each day from tobacco use, whether they are young or old, is too many because it can be so easily prevented. Also, it is illegal for tobacco brands to be depicted in movies since the Master Settlement Agreement in 1999. In fact, tobacco companies sometimes tell movie makers to take the brands out of the movies because they don’t want to get in trouble.
Posted by: hvtommyjy on 08/01/07
Very nice point of view! Respect!
Posted by: Dave on 08/11/07
This is a pretty ridiculous argument, folks. Yes, smoking is an awful addictions, but so are many other things that are portrayed in movies. Where is your indignant protest of the portrayal of SUVs in film? After all, smoking effects the smoker and perhaps a few others, but global warming is a problem that will effect the survival of our entire species.
Posted by: Jane on 08/14/07
Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it! :)
Posted by: Jane on 08/14/07
Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you.
Posted by: Blake on 08/23/07
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Posted by: Britney Pocked on 08/24/07
Hi. Wonderful and informative web site. bye, bye ;-)
Posted by: R. Howard on 10/04/07
Great website and wise way to rate cigaretts in movies.
Posted by: David P Perry on 10/10/07
never smoked but in every movie I see, the actors smoke. Do the tobacco companies own the production companies?
Posted by: Teresa on 11/20/07
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Posted by: chazgk on 11/08/04
Keep spreading the word! It's nice to see that you're taking the time and providing the information to make us aware of this contreversial subject