“The Offer” Credit: Nicole Wilder/Paramount+. Today, actors usually approximate smoking onscreen with prop movie cigarettes, or cigarettes that don’t contain tobacco or nicotine.

Maybe they should call it fourth-hand smoking. While Hollywood has reduced smoking in films aimed at younger audiences, parents can't be certain kids won't be exposed to onscreen cigarette or cigar… ...

But today, concerns about the effects of scenes that glamorize tobacco use have led anti-tobacco lobbyists to push for the removal of smoking from movies targeted at children. According to a Sept. 30 ...

HBO Max is cutting back on costs — and cigarettes, too. In a bizarre move spotted by film buffs on social media, HBO Max has been censoring cigarettes from select iconic movie posters that it ...

You know what they didn’t expect? The way that Gerard Butler chooses to smoke his cigarettes in the Den of Thieves movies.You can see it in the photo below. There’s a very unique style to the ...

But times have changed. Bans on public smoking began rolling out in the late 1990s, and by 2018 cigarette smoking among US adults reached an all-time low of 13.7 percent.