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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8473

31 May 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/tobacco
David Byrne supports World No Tobacco Day on the theme "Tobacco free fashion and film"

Brussels, 30/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - "Big tobacco uses film and fashion as a means of promoting and marketing their products. Movie characters smoking onscreen often look cool and glamorous doing it. Hollywood screenwriter and film producer Joe Eszterhas once said that a cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. I agree. And to those who are the targets I say: Don't get fooled by the tobacco industry. See through the plot. Feel free to say...

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