Digital Smarts - Video Games With Smoking Characters Carry No Warnings
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Researchers surveyed 65 video game players, ages 13 to 50, and found they reported that tobacco was featured in 31% of the games they played, while the researchers found 42% of the games contained tobacco imagery. The researchers said 42% of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board-rated games carried a mature label, with 76% containing tobacco imagery, but only 4% mentioned tobacco on the package warnings.