"Among young adults who had never used e-cigarettes, we found a significant effect of cartoon-based marketing on their likelihood of using the products in the future," said Jon-Patrick Allem ...

Research appears to be unequivocal about the effect of these ... said she thought the smoking fitted the gritty genre and would be more worrisome if the film weren't a cartoon.

Russian news reports this week speculated that a law on protecting children that takes effect on Saturday could require extensive cutting of episodes of the cartoon 'Nu Pogodi' because the ...

The classic Cartoon Channel Boomerang has agreed to cut scenes from Tom and Jerry cartoons showing characters smoking. A British media watchdog complained about cartoons like this one. (Soundbite ...

Turner Broadcasting says it will go through more than 1,500 Hanna-Barbera cartoon classics, including The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking. Turner Broadcasting ...

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Another cartoon, called "Cheburashka," features a beneficent pipe-smoking crocodile. In an e-mail interview with "The Moscow Times," Aleksei Kotyonochkin -- the son of the creator of "Nu ...