By STEPHANIE NANO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK – There’s a lot less smoking in the movies these days, a new report shows.
Tobacco use on the silver screen peaked in 2005 and has been on the decline since, according to research that looked at the most popular films from 1991 to 2009.
Last year more than half of the 145 top movies released didn’t show any smoking at all. That’s a record for the past two decades. For films aimed at children or teens, the percentage was even higher – 61 percent. However, 54 percent of the movies rated PG-13 did show tobacco use.