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Netflix is cracking down on smoking, but that’s not its biggest problem

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published July 8, 2019 3:47pm ET
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Netflix is cracking down on smoking, but that’s not its biggest problem
A Philip Morris Marlboro brand cigarette burns in an ashtray for this arranged photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Philip Morris International Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 20. | (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Hundreds of thousands of fans anticipated the release of Stranger Things 3 last week, but not everyone was happy about the show’s new season.

The Truth Initiative, an anti-tobacco organization, recently released a report showing that Netflix’s depictions of smoking tripled last year. Among the culprits were Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, and Fuller House.

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