The Week contest: No smoking

This week’s contest: Over half of the top-grossing films of 2024 included scenes with cigarettes, cigars, or other tobacco products, according to a new study. In seven or fewer words, come up with a PSA reminding young people that smoking is still not cool, despite what they may see in Hollywood blockbusters.

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Primate peck.

RESULTS:

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THE WINNER: Where there’s smoke, it’s not fire

Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, N.Y.

SECOND PLACE: Smoke now and miss the sequel

Frank Sargent, Carlisle, Mass.

THIRD PLACE: Lowkey don’t simp for Philip Morris, bruh

Erica Avery, Greenfield, Mass.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Lung cancer costs more than streaming service

Mark Yee, Columbia, Md.

Smoking makes you look like your parents.

John Parry, Eldersburg, Md.

Don’t make an ash of yourself.

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

The plot thickens, but tobacco sickens.

John Keefe, Mount Vernon, Wash.

Bad breath doesn’t come across the screen.

Peter Gordon, Great Neck, N.Y.

Leaping large buildings and smoking don’t mix.

Bill Levine, Belmont, Mass.

There’s nothing 'lit' about lighting up.

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.

#smoking: It’s giving ‘cancer’

Jacob Walas, Asheville, N.C.

Your lungs don’t have stunt doubles.

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.

Smoking sucks! Ignore Hollywood’s smoking schmucks.

Judith Bernstein, Arroyo Grande, Calif.

Objects on screen are closer to death than they appear.

Rich Herbst, West Chester, Pa.