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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.

 

Movie Stars Who Smoke Influence Kids to Do the Same

When American film stars smoke cigarettes on screen, they influence not only teens in the USA to smoke, but also young people all over the world.

New studies at universities in Mexico and Germany found that celebrity smoking in films functions like an ad for smoking. The German study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that those teens who have seen the most cinema smoking are twice as likely to try cigarettes themselves. A recent study published in Pediatrics journal concluded that three out of four movies feature smoking, and 61% of them are youth-rated.

American scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health are recommending that movies do not show specific brands of cigarettes. They also recommend that only adult movies should contain images of smokers, and that anti-smoking ads should air prior to the film.

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