Smoking in teenagers and watching films showing smoking.

Editorial. Comments on a paper by Sargent, et al, in the December 15, 2001 issue of 'British Medical Journal,' and looks at steps that the motion picture industry in the United States can take to stop promoting smoking in the world. Discussion of the relationship that the tobacco industry has cultivated with Hollywood, using large payments to film studios and other methods; Evidence that the more that teenagers see smoking in films, the more likely they are to smoke.