不‧衛‧生

你反菸嗎？你是否曾想過你為什麼反菸？還是從小大人告訴你抽煙是不好的，所以你相信香菸是個壞東西？

公視的人生劇展"偵探物語"中(是晚間十點過後的節目了)，時常有人物大剌剌抽煙喝酒的場景。說真心話，如果影像中該抽煙喝酒表現情緒時，卻因為政治因素而不能這麼表現，我會覺得似乎少掉了什麼東西。

難道就真的要打電話給電視公司或民代抗議嗎？ 

還是應該推廣將來出現抽煙鏡頭時，旁邊要出現跑馬寫"抽煙純屬戲劇效果，請勿仿效"！？ 

就像近年來美國電影最後都會寫上"劇中動物屍體為模型"之類讓社會大眾安心的話！？ 

或者香菸要馬賽克起來！？ 

或者有菸出現的電影列為十八禁 (根據以下附報導所述，孩子似乎是比較容易受誘惑的，所以要受保護？)

我覺得公共衛生惱人的地方就在此：當"健康"成為時代中主要道德價值時，就會跟過去一樣出現某種讓人隱隱不安的恐怖氣氛。

Dear friends,

Schools should never promote tobacco to students.

But they do.

Today, Commercial Alert released a report showing that sixty percent of movies advertised on Channel One portray smoking. Channel One is a daily commercial TV program shown to more than 30 percent of all American teenagers in nearly 11,500 middle and high schools across the United States.

Since January 1, 2000, Channel One has advertised at least 67 commercial motion pictures. Forty of these movies portray smoking.

Such cinema portrayals of tobacco are highly effective in luring young people into the ranks of tobacco users – even more so than conventional advertising. It is estimated that each year smoking in movies recruits 390,000 new young smokers in the United States.

We can't let schools become yet another venue for the tobacco companies to hook our kids on their deadly products.

There are two things you can do today to help.

1) Send emails to your governor and state legislators right away, telling them to get Channel One out of every school in your state.

http://hq.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/commercialalert//
campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1244

2) Call your local school district and find out whether Channel One is shown in your local public schools. If so, then tell school board members about the report -- that Channel One promotes tobacco use -- and ask them to remove Channel One from every school in your school district. Copies of our report are available at http://www.commercialalert.org/smokingclass.pdf, and more information is on our web page on smoking and schools.

Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States, causing 435,000 fatalities each year. Adolescents who see plenty of smoking on screen are nearly three times more likely to start smoking than those who see the least.

Thanks for caring about this. Together, we can help stop schools from luring our kids to smoke.

-- Gary Ruskin, Commercial Alert