Hollywood & Tobacco Money

Hollywood's Golden Era Permeated by Tobacco Money Download Complimentary Source PDF

By Crystal Phend, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: September 25, 2008 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 -- Behind the glamorous classic-film images of movie stars with cigarette in hand or dangling between the lips were advertising agreements worth millions in today's dollars, researchers found. Action Points   Explain to interested patients that the study found links between the tobacco industry and Hollywood as far back as the first talking movies.  Note that smoking and tobacco product placements are allowed in movies whereas tobacco advertisements were banned from television in the 1970s. These deals between tobacco companies and the studios that had the stars under contract continue to influence smoking in movies, reported Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues online in Tobacco Control. The mutually beneficial, cross-promotion arrangements revealed in the researchers' review of archived marketing and tobacco company documents from the 1920s through the '50s left a trail of cigarettes in publicity photos and classic films, they said.