Thursday, 16 February 2012  More movie madness  Last night I
watched Bridesmaids (it's pretty good). I didn't notice any
smoking in it, but then I'm not a wide-eyed obsessive living in
terror of a waft of on-screen smoke. Apparently, however, at
least one person does smoke at some point because the film is
named and shamed in Stanton Glantz's latest work of pseudo-
academia. According to the great mechanical engineer, the movie
has delivered 60,020,706 "tobacco impressions" and so has led to
hundreds, if not thousands, of youngsters to suddenly taking up
the habit.  Welcome to the world of SmokeFree Movies, Glantz's
quixotic campaign to banish tobacco from our screens (for the
children, natch). Despite years of being ridiculed and ignored
on this issue, Stan is continuing his crusade and has written
yet another paper on the subject (he has written a lot).  Today,
he claims that 100,000 Californian 12-17 year olds are smokers
as a direct result of seeing smoking in the movies. This is a
figure that he alone inv