• Smoking was heavy (50+ incidents) in nearly half of these films (47%, 8/17), including pipe-smoking in The Hobbit (PG-13)

• Half a dozen biographically-based films were nominated for 2012 — all with smoking. But only 25% of youth-rated movies with smoking (2/8) were biographically-based.

• PG-13 nominees delivering the most tobacco impressions (prelim.) in theaters include

• The Hobbit (Time Warner, 4.1 billion)

• Lincoln (Disney, 1.9 billion)

• Skyfall (Sony, 1 billion)

• R-rated nominees include:

• Argo (Time Warner, 2.2 billion)

• Django Unchained (Sony, 2.2 billion)

• Flight (Viacom, 1.6 billion)

Among actors smoking in this year's films were 

Leo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained, R)

Ian McKellen and Michael Freeman (The Hobbit, PG-13)

David Strathairn and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Lincoln, PG-13)

Berenice Marlohe (Skyfall, PG-13)

Denzel Washington* (Flight, R)

Ben Affleck and John Goodman (Argo, R)

Joaquin Phoenix* and Philip Seymour Hoffman* (The Master, R)

Jessica Chastain* (Zero Dark Thirty, R)

Bruce WIllis, Edward Norton and Francis McDormand (Moonrise Kingdom, PG-13).

* Nominated for Best or Supporting Actor or Actress