Making kid-rated movies smokefree would save over 1,000,000 lives

Invest your values. Are your savings invested in the tobacco industry or in entertainment companies that promote tobacco use?

Why tobacco is important. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and around the world. Most smokers start before they’re 18. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.

Many entertainment companies promote smoking. Kid-rated movies still depict smoking, even though the U.S. Surgeon General and the scientific community have concluded that smoking scenes in movies cause young people to smoke.

Entertainment companies are recruiting young smokers
Making kid-rated movies smokefree would save millions of kids’ lives
Multi-national tobacco companies
Multi-national tobacco companies
Tobacco is the #1 cause of preventable death in the U.S. and one billion lives are at stake worldwide. Around the world, 180 countries have ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Tobacco-promoting entertainment companies
Tobacco-promoting entertainment companies
Making kid-rated movies smokefree would prevent one million tobacco deaths in this generation of U.S. kids. Hollywood studios and their parent companies are well aware of the public health risk, but continue to expose millions of kids to tobacco.
Did you know
Around the world, 180 countries have committed to combat tobacco addiction, disability and early death — and end tobacco promotion through the entertainment media. Download Acrobat Reader to view this PDF
Tell Hollywood to make kid-rated movies smokefree
America’s best-known entertainment companies have delivered millions of American kids to the tobacco industry
Is tobacco harmful to your finances?
Screen your portfolio for tobacco companies and entertainment companies that promote tobacco

Most retirement savings are in 401k plans offered by our employers. 401k plans mostly offer mutual funds, and it can be hard to find out what companies are inside those funds.

Use Tobacco Free Funds to X-ray your investment funds.

Tobacco Free Funds will tell you if your retirement money is invested in tobacco companies and entertainment companies that promote tobacco. We help you find investment options that support a cleaner and healthier future.

Smoking in movies? See for yourself
Click a logo below to view the tobacco footprints of America’s best-known entertainment companies
Comcast | UCSF Smoke Free MoviesFox | UCSF Smoke Free MoviesSony | UCSF Smoke Free MoviesWarner Brothers - TimeWarner | UCSF Smoke Free MoviesViacom - Paramount | UCSF Smoke Free MoviesIndies | UCSF Smoke Free Movies

Breathe California and the University of California, San Francisco, maintain the world’s largest database of on-screen tobacco, covering more than 2,750 U.S. films since 2002. You now have direct online access to the tobacco-promotion track records for every major player in every top-grossing Hollywood film for the last fifteen years and more.

Survey Hollywood’s tobacco trends. Check out tobacco rankings for producers, directors, actors, and other famous names. Compare the tobacco footprints of America’s biggest entertainment companies. Call up individual movie reports. And investigate the Hollywood’s long history of collaborating with tobacco companies to sell smoking to new audiences, traced in once-secret industry documents.

Who’s accountable for putting toxic tobacco imagery in the movies that kids see most? Get the facts.

Smoke Free Movies Database is a public resource provided by:
UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and EducationUCSF Smoke Free Movies
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Index funds
Passively managed investment funds that track market indexes have seen significant fund inflows over the past decade. These indexes, from firms like from S&P Global Ratings, Russell/FTSE, and MSCI, are increasingly setting our economy on autopilot and pumping capital into unsustainable business models. Below are the tobacco grades for 10 common index funds.
IndexRated asTobacco grade
S&P 500IVVD
Russell 1000IWBD
Russell 2000IWMC
Russell 3000IWVD
S&P 100OEFD
Russell Top 200IWLD
MSCI ACWIACWID
MSCI EAFEEFAD
MSCI Emerging MarketsEEMC
MSCI ACWI ex U.S.ACWXD
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