The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 40 Tobacco and the movies

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Sylvester stallone was offered $500,000 to use brown and williamson cigarettes in the

films rambo, rocky iv, godfather iii, and rhinestone cowboy. The company spent $1

million over a four-year period to put images of its cigarettes into the movies.

New york times, may 20, 1994, p. A8

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In 1983, sylvester stallone guaranteed in writing to smoke brown and williamson

cigarettes in five of his upcoming films for a payment of $500,000. B & w terminated

the contract before all the films were made because of disappointment with the lack of

prominent placement achieved.

The cigarette papers, p. 365

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In a march 1996 study, 77% of 133 current movies portrayed tobacco use. Walt

disney pictures was rated the best, with an average of "only" six smoking situations

per movie, followed by 20th century fox and universal pictures. At the bottom were

Miramax films and castle rock entertainment, with 45 and 34 incidents, respectively.

While only 3 percent of the american population smoke cigars, they were depicted in

more than half of those movies with tobacco use.

San francisco chronicle, september 15, 1996, datebook, p. 56

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The american lung association studied 133 movies released in 1994 and 1995, and

found that 77% showed tobacco use. Of 18 films playing in theaters in october 1996,

only one was smokeless. 10 of these films featured more than 15 smoking scenes,

and all of the top ten films featured tobacco use.

Usa today, november 7, 1996, p. 6d

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