Remove smoking from pre-watershed TV programme to protect young people

D-MYST The Agency feel strongly about the way the media continue to show tobacco images in TV programmes viewed by children and young people before the 9pm ‘watershed’.

Please help us to protect children’s health and save lives by asking the Government to remove smoking from all future pre-watershed programmes.

Click Here to sign our HM Govt e-petition!

Popular programmes like Coronation Street, Eastenders and The Simpsons continue to show scene after scene with people smoking, often glamourising it and rarely showing the negative consequences. Smoking does not need to be in these programmes: look at smokefree Hollyoaks!

Research* shows that there is a close relationship between children’s exposure to smoking on TV and take up of smoking. This concerns D-MYST as a two thirds of smokers become addicted as children and smoking kills about half of all regular smokers. 

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thorax.bmj.com
www.legacyforhealth.org

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