Studios to include PSAs on DVDs

Hollywood to kids: Our movies might glamorize smoking, but don’t start yourself.

Six major studios have agreed to include anti-smoking announcements on millions of DVDs of motion pictures that include scenes with tobacco use.

The public service announcements will appear on films rated G, PG and PG-13.

Participating studios are Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros.

The deal involving the studios and the state of California was brokered by the nonprofit Entertainment Industry Foundation. The state developed the anti-smoking announcements.