Recent policy research publications

Millett C., Polansky J.R., Glantz, S.A. (2011) Government inaction on ratings and government subsidies to the US film industry help promote youth smoking. PLoS Medicine 8(8): e1001077. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001077

Glantz S.A., Mitchell S., Titus K., Polansky J.R., Kaufman R., Bauer U. (2011) Smoking in top-grossing movies - United States, 2010. MMWR 60(27): 909-913.

Polansky, J.R. (2010) Tobacco Vector: How American movies, Canadian film subsidies and provincial rating practices will kill 43,000 Canadian teens alive today - and what Canadian governments can do about it. Physicians for Smoke-Free Canada.

Glantz, S.A., Titus, K., Mitchell, S., Polansky, J.R., Kaufmann, R. (2010) Smoking in top-grossing movies - United States, 1991-2009. MMWR 59(32);1014-1017.

Polansky, J.R., Mitchell, S., Glantz, S.A. (2010) Film-Flam: How MPAA/NATO movie labels hide the biggest media risk to kids. University of California, San Francisco, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

Anderson, S.J., Millett, C., Polansky, J.R., Glantz, S.A. (2010) Exposure to smoking in movies among British adolescents 2001-2006. Tobacco Control 19:197-200

Polansky, J.R., Glantz, S.A. (2009) Taxpayer subsidies for US films with tobacco imagery. UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

Polansky, J.R., Titus, K., Glantz, S.A. (2009) Two years later: Are MPAA's tobacco labels protecting movie audiences? UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

Titus, K., Polansky, J.R., Glantz, S.A. (2009) Smoking presentation trends in US movies, 1991-2008. UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

Contributor. World Health Organization (2009) Smoke-free movies: from evidence to action. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization

Lum, K.L., Polansky, J.R., Jackler, R.K., Glantz, S.A. (2008) Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Big Tobacco in Hollywood, 1927-1951. Tobacco Control 17: 313-323

Polansky, J.R., Glantz, S.A. (2007) First-run smoking presentations in U.S. movies, 1999-2006. UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education