| Wednesday, May 2, 2007 |
| Smoking in movies influence youth to smoke |
CNS-MEDIAWATCH: Smoking in movies influence youth to smoke
Keep-The-Promise Campaign
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In the recent past, English and Hindi newspapers have been carrying editorial indepth articles on portrayal of tobacco use in cinema/ films, in India and globally as well. One of the major influences on the uptake of teen tobacco use is the glamourisation of tobacco use in movies and on television. It has been well documented in India and internationally too, that portrayal of tobacco use in films influences youth to begin tobacco use. Keep-The-Promise Campaign team has put together a bulletin of such media clippings below (see the list):
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KEEP THE PROMISE DR RAMADOSS!!!
Below is the statement of Dr Ramadoss (dated 12 July 2006). Close to a year later, we are yet to see any change in effect!
"Curbing exposure to children and adolescents to tobacco in films/TV is the single most effective public health intervention for any society in the world" said Dr Ambumani Ramadoss, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Government of India.
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27 April 2007: Editorial article by CNS Journalist Amit Dwivedi (Hindi) published in JANSATTA (Hindi national newspaper)
Available online at: http://mycitizennews.blogspot.com
Movie magic up in smoke
The Statesman, India
Available online at: http://www.thestatesman.net
Link between tobacco use and films
The Korea Times, (South Korea)
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=4829
Untold story of films’ link to tobacco
Brunei Times (Brunei Darussalam)
Available online at: http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=22915
Tobacco shown in movies influences youth to begin tobacco use
Morocco Times (Morocco)
Available online at: http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=22&id=17307
Tobacco shown in movies influences children
The Seoul Times (South Korea)
Available online at: http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=4111
The unwritten script: Link between tobacco and film industry
The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Available online at: http://www.thedailystar.net
Youth begin smoking by seeing tobacco use in films
The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)
Available online at: http://www.kantipuronline.com/ktmpost.php
Tobacco shown in movies influences youth
The News (Pakistan)
Available online at: http://www.thenews.com.pk
Tobacco shown in Movies influences youth
The Monitor (Uganda)
Available online at: http://www.monitor.co.ug
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Keep-The-Promise Campaign is a 120 days (7 April – 4 August 2007) media advocacy and communications campaign dedicated to raise awareness about existing tobacco control legislations (including FCTC) in countries in Asia and Africa, bring out challenges in their enforcement and increase media coverage of the same. The campaign shall also remind of promises made on tobacco control by policy makers of different countries in Asia and Africa and strengthen advocacy to Keep The Promises! More details about the KTP Campaign are available online at:
http://mycitizennews.blogspot.com/2007/04/keep-promise-campaign.html
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