Movies have long been considered a factor in adolescent smoking initiation, but until recently there has been little supportive empirical evidence. To date, Dr. Jim Sargent of Dartmouth University and his team have conducted multiple studies that examined smoking in contemporary movies, evaluated the short-term effects of seeing smoking in movies on attitudes toward smoking, directly assessed exposure to tobacco use in movies and it's association with smoking initiation, and measured exposure to movie smoking among never smokers and its relation with subsequent smoking. Links to the following research are provided:

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