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WHO Calls for Smoking Ban in Films

The World Health Organization is calling on movie producers to ban smoking scenes from their films to protect children from becoming addicted to this lethal product.

James Bond, known by his code number of 007, may have a “license to kill.” But, the World Health Organization finds the glamorous portrayal of smoking in Bond films and thousands of others around the world is essentially a license to kill young people.

It says it has the statistics to prove it.

WHO Tobacco-Free Initiative Program Manager Armando Peruga says studies in the United States show on-screen smoking accounts for 37 percent read more >>>

Source : VOANews.Com