Tobacco imagery rising in top entertainment, including among 2024 Oscar Best Picture nominees

To find a smoke-free setting among this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees, you’d have to go to Barbie Land. Of the 10 films nominated for the Oscars top prize, all except “Barbie” feature characters who smoke, according to Truth Initiative’s sixth annual review of tobacco imagery in top entertainment, which finds a surge in on-screen tobacco use across the most popular streaming shows among 15- to 24-year-olds, music videos, as well as youth-rated and Oscar-nominated movies.

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Old tactics, new products: how Big Tobacco targets women in e-cigarette marketing

Since the 1920’s, the tobacco industry has used women’s suffrage and equality movements to market cigarettes to women. Today, as the industry shifts its focus to e-cigarettes, tobacco companies are using similar tactics to market these products to women, with themes of independence, glamour, fun, and health-consciousness.

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This week in tobacco policy news

Hawaii – A bill that would have repealed preempting county ordinances and regulations of tobacco products died when it was not considered in the House Finance Committee before the March 1st deadline.
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