Debate heats up over smoking in film

May 05, 2008 The push to end smoking in the movies lights up Congress this week as the anti-tobacco American Legacy campaign plans to highlight their campaign in an event scheduled in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. American Legacy claims that one-third of all teens who start smoking each year are recruited primarily by the smoking they see in movies. The group contends that the nearly 14 billion smoking images they claim young people see in the movies contributes to the nation's 40,000-person tobacco-related death toll.

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