The studio notes that, in such cases, it will discourage depictions of tobacco use where reasonable and practical. Last updated in April of 2006, Universals own posted policy presumes that no smoking incidents should appear in any youth-rated film produced by Universal Pictures or any wholly-owned Universal Studios film label and released in the United States. The studio offers its own loophole, of course, noting that this presumption can be rebutted with respect to a given smoking incident based on the importance of the incident to the film, from a factual or creative standpoint, and/or the difficulty in removing it from the film
However, most only do so when something happens to remind them of this
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The sale of most flavored tobacco products is banned across California, but the I-Team is looking into concerns the law may be overlooked
Smoking has been linked to a higher risk of developing open-angle glaucoma, the most common type of glaucoma