Cigarettes make a comeback.
While the number of Americans smoking is low, cigarettes seem to be popping up everywhere in Hollywood and on film screens.
Dakota Johnson, Walton Goggins, Sabrina Carpenter and Phoebe Dynevor are just a few of the celebrities that light up in front of the cameras.
And although it might only be their characters who have the bad habit, experts tell DailyMail.com who can delay smoking on the screen or even ‘reverse’ for decades of progress.
Only one in 10 American adults regularly smokes, a considerable dip of 40 percent in the 1960s, when custom was seen as fashionable and a status symbol.
And only four percent of children and teenagers picked up a cigarette compared to one in three in the 1990s.
While cigarettes were once considered a common prop in the old school cinema, they started to be phased out of the media around the 1970s. And in the past decade, networks and streaming services have confronted with the increasing pressure to remove tobacco images from programs aimed at young people.
But recent research shows that smoking on the screen has doubled in recent years, especially in shows aimed at Gen Z and Gen Alpha, even after filmmaking giants such as Netflix promised to scale back.
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And celebrities that maintain the habit can protect young people against the well -known health risks, because they can offer themselves access to plastic surgery of top board and treatments to ward off the consequences.
Dr. Nzinga Harrison, co-founder and chief medical officer Eleanor HealthDailYMail.com told: ‘Extensive research has shown a clear link between the display of smoking in the media and an increased chance of initiation of smoking, especially with adolescents and young adults.
“Although the smoking percentages are at historical lows, especially among teenagers, the reformalization of smoking through popular culture can delay or even reversed this progress by increasing the observed social acceptability.”
In 2022, the latest data available, 11.6 percent of American adults reported smoking cigarettes, a decrease of 65 percent of 42.6 percent in 1965.
More recently, the rates among adults have fallen by 17 percent over the past five years.
And the smoking percentage of the youth in 2022 was only 3.8 percent, a decrease of 86 percent compared to the late nineties.
The rates began to fall around 1964 after the American surgeon-general had released the first report on what now established health risks are such as lung cancer, heart conditions and tooth decay.
Cigarette advertisements were banned from TV and radio and public spaces a few years later in 1971 started to implement ‘no smoking’ rules in the late nineties and early 2000.
From 2007, the Motion Picture Association studios encouraged to rid of smoking films with young people because of pressure from anti-smoking groups.
By 2019, Netflix announced that it would remove all programs with the rated TV-14 and PG-13 or Under.
However, recent research paints a different picture.
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A 2024 Report Due to the Anti-Tabaksgroep Truth Initiative, the number of tobacco images in streaming that is popular with the 15 to 24-year-olds doubled in 2022 compared to the previous year. This stated 25 million Americans in that age category for the use of tobacco on the screen.
The team discovered that the Golf was largely powered by ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ by Netflix, which contained a third of all tobacco images.
In addition, the number of tobacco images in Binge-Bekeken almost quadrupled.
Six out of seven streaming networks all had an increase in tobacco images that year, with the only biter NBC.
And despite the 2019 initiative for youth programs, Netflix doubled his tobacco images more than in 2022 compared to 2021. It also included cigarette use in the film Cobra Kai, which was assessed on TV-14.
About half of the top 15 streaming shows among 15 to 24-year-olds contain tobacco in some form.
In 2022, nine out of 10 best photo -nominees, except Barbie, showed a form of tobacco images, an increase of seven years before.
Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist in New York City, told DailyMail.com: ‘When young people see celebrities or popular characters smoking regularly, it can make a misleading impression that smoking is not as harmful as the public health campaigns have taught us.
‘The media play a powerful role in shaping social standards. Glorify or repeatedly show smoking risks that undermine decades of progress in reducing tobacco use, especially among young people. ‘
A 2024 Study High students found teenagers who never used tobacco or other nicotine products, almost three times more likely to try them if they saw social media reports of celebrities or influencers they used.
And one Recent survey Out of Truth Initiative, 37 percent of the adolescents who are starting to smoke did this because they saw images of it in films.
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Dr. Harrison said that this website increased the portrait of smoking in the media can “send the message that the behavior is glamorous or harmless.”
He added: ‘This is particularly misleading because celebrities often have access to elite health care, cosmetic procedures and agents that can reduce the visible and medical consequences of smoking.
“Most Americans do not have the same safety net as celebrities, which leads to an increased risk of negative smoke -related health consequences over time.”
For example, smoking is still responsible for nine in 10 cases of lung cancer, the deadliest form of America’s disease.
Alpert said that the prevention of health damage starts with smoking starts to re -investigate measures taken decades ago to get cigarettes off the screen.
He said this website: ‘Although it is unrealistic to expect all images to disappear, a more conscious approach to makers of content could help – limit glamorized smoke scenes and include clearer reports about the damage can prevent popularity from recovering the popularity.
‘Ultimately, the goal is to protect young people against starting a habit that is difficult to break and has serious health consequences in the long term. Media have the responsibility to balance telling stories with the awareness of public health, given its important influence. ‘
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