Netflix Urged by Lawmakers to Cut Back Smoking Scenes

U.S. lawmakers are warning Netflix Inc. to limit the exposure of young people to smoking and vaping imagery.

“We urge your company to take more aggressive steps to limit this imagery and decrease young people’s consumption of this harmful content,” wrote Democratic Senators Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut in a letter to Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos.