
A quick overview of tobacco smoking in mainstream comic books – Japan, the US, and France/Belgium
Written by DG Stewart, August 19, 2016
In a peer-reviewed article entitled “Smoking in Movies: Impact on Adolescent Smoking” written by James D. Sargent MD (Adolsc Med 16 (2005) 345-370, there is a startling finding: “Adolescent never smokers who nominated a star who smoked on screen were 1.4 times more likely to take up smoking over the 4-year follow-up period, even after