Panel Hosted by Legacy Featuring CDC, Mad Men Documentary Producer and FCC Expert to Examine Tobacco Images in Media and on Television

Panel Hosted by Legacy Featuring CDC, Mad Men Documentary Producer and FCC Expert to Examine Tobacco Images in Media and on Television

From Silver Screen to Flat Screen: The Deadly Impact of Smoking on Television on America's Youth

To Be Held February 18, 2011

WHAT: New findings from research in the February 2011 Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine show that substantial amounts of tobacco images are present in television programming popular among youth. Panelists will discuss why images of smoking in movies, media and television have a profound effect on youth smoking initiation. The panel will discuss what public health, policy leaders and the entertainment industry can do together to avert tobacco-related disease and death through responsible depictions of smoking in media.

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WHO: Legacy will host experts from public health and the entertainment and telecommunications industries:

-- Ursula Bauer, Ph.D., MPH, Director, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
-- Colin Crowell, Crowell Strategies - Telecommunications, Technology
Policy Expert, formerly with the Federal Communications Commission and
Congressman Edward Markey
-- Cicely Gilkey, Producer, AMC's Mad Men Season 3 documentary Clearing the
Air: The History of Cigarette Advertising

WHEN: 12-2 p.m. EST February 18, 2011

WHERE: Legacy® - 1724 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036

WEBCAST DETAILS:http://www.legacyforhealth.org/4076.aspx

This link will go live 10 minutes prior to program start.

CONTACT: Julia Cartwright, Legacy, +1-202-454-5596, jcartwright@legacyforhealth.org

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Feb. 11, 2011/

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Web Site: http://www.legacyforhealth.org/4076.aspx

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