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Now movie makers may have to kick the habit all together. courtney friel has more on this. hi, courtney. >> reporter: time and time again studies show that young people are heavily influenced by onscreen smoking, and with 1.1 million smokers ages 12-17 and 80% of adult smokers admitting to starting before age 18, the thought is, hey, lets prevent the problem beforehand. the cdcs report counted the tobacco use reported in the top 50 flicks each year. after multiplying the number of smoking incide...

Top 50 biggest flicks at the box office each year between 1991 and 2009. after multiplying the number of smoking incidents by the number of tickets sold to each movie, they found billions of smoking impression. half of those movies from last year with smoking were rated pg-13. only good news is in the past four years, smoking scenes have decreased. its still too common. what can be done about this? the report has four recommendations for filmmakers. they must give an r-rating to any film with sm...

Theyre now 70 years of age and many are dying off, waiting for justice. so were calling on the senate to take the appropriate action and to do it now for our nations black farmers. they shouldnt have to wait another day. we went to court, we won in court, theres been report after report, the civil rights action team report at usda where it investigated itself and found itself guilty of discriminating against black farmers. so here we are waiting for justice and i look at what happened to mrs. sh...

Republicans with their attack while youre in office? >> no, i sure dont. i mean maybe a little bit, okay lets be honest here. the truth is my impeachment hearings were a dark, dark time in american history. but lets look at the good that came from us. c-span had its very first pg-13 rating. they did good. you know i -- i tell you, larry, i have to respect the republicans. because what they want to do is they want to reduce the size of government. now i just dont think that indictments are the ri...

I hunted a don quayle. back in the 90s i wish i would have shot some those lawyers i really do. >> larry: so you dont resent republicans with their attack while youre in office? >> no, i sure dont. i mean maybe a little bit, okay lets be honest here. the truth is my impeachment hearings were a dark, dark time in american history. but lets look at the good that came from us. c-span had its very first pg-13 rating. they did good. you know i -- i tell you, larry, i have to respect the republicans. ...

Miles per hour across the border. parts of reno without power because of high winds. windy conditions will prevail in places like salt lake and denver. high temperature there of about 74 degrees. it will be 70 in atlanta and 58 degrees, kind of chilly in new york. john and kiran, back to you. >> they were switching over to summer activities in stow, maybe they should get the lifts going. our top stories a couple minutes away, including denying the double dealing. it got a little pg-13 with the...

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