Our Ads - New York Times Smoke Free Movies has launched a series of print advertisements in the New York Times and other publications. This advertisement first ran on March 12, 2001. America's most heavily advertised cigarette was featured in at least 28 top-grossing films in the 1990s.
Smoking is just as common in youth-rated movies as in films rated for mature audiences.
The Killing Fields. Hollywood is famous for commemorating mass murders after the fact. Yes, tobacco is a legal product. But advertising tobacco brands on TV has been illegal since 1970. Instead, some of the world's leading tobacco firms paid cash and in-kind to place their cigarette brands in Hollywood movies.