Not Cool To Smoke

With Vice President Al Gore contending that Hollywood is partly to blame for teenage smoking, some filmmakers and TV producers agreed Wednesday to clean up their act. Representatives of the Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild and Writers Guild pledged to use peer pressure to keep their colleagues from depicting cigarettes as cool. Gore cited a study that found 77 percent of all movies released last year showed tobacco use, often in scenes that glamorized smoking. That finding coincides with reports tracking a recent rise in teen smoking.