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  1. Report Report Research & Resources

    The video game danger parents don’t know about

    The depiction of tobacco use in games serves, in effect, as free advertising for tobacco companies, and a recruitment mechanism for the "replacement smo

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    Teen-rated video game with smoking set for wider distribution

    The use of tobacco in XCOM 2 is part of a trend in video games rated suitable for or popular with teenagers.

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    Hero in blockbuster teen video game “Overwatch” smokes cigars

    Overwatch, a video game rated suitable for teens, features a hero who smokes cigars, part of a trend of games that show tobacco being marketed to use

  4. News Article News Article Research & Resources

    Played: Tobacco use widespread in video games played by youth

    Smoking is prevalent and often glamorized in video games popular among youth, according to Played: Smoking and Video Games, a review of research from Truth I

  5. New report finds parents unaware that video games contain smoking images with many targeting teens

    Smoking is prevalent and often glamorized in video games played by youth, but a new report, released today by Truth Initiative®, finds that most parents are

  6. New Truth Initiative report shows troubling use of tobacco imagery in tv shows, movies and music videos most popular among youth as e-cigarette epidemic persists

    While You Were Streaming: Nicotine on Demand is the fourth annual report from Truth Initiative that monitors tobacco imagery across the most popular streamin

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    Video series aims to change the narrative about tobacco in the African-American community

    A new web video series created by a Truth Initiative® fellow hopes to spark conversations about tobacco use in the African-American community.

  8. News Article News Article Research & Resources

    #CATmageddon: How smoking could make cat videos a thing of the past

    With the #CATmageddon campaign, truth continues to use the truth about tobacco to engage teens to help end tobacco use.

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    Action needed: Tobacco in pop culture

    Despite a 1998 law prohibiting paid tobacco product placements in movies and TV programming, tobacco imagery is still seen on screens everywhere, including m

  10. New Report Details Alarming Surge in Tobacco Imagery in On-Screen Entertainment Most Popular Among Youth and Young Adults

    Tobacco imagery is surging in shows, social media, music videos and movies — including nearly every Best Picture nominee at the 2024 Academy Awards

  11. Report Report Research & Resources

    Nicotine on demand

    Tobacco remains rampant in the year’s most popular shows, movies, and music videos, fueling the ongoing youth e-cigarette epidemic.

  12. Report Report Research & Resources

    While you were streaming

    New research from Truth Initiative reveals that 79 percent of the shows most popular with young people depict smoking prominently.