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Death In The West - http://www.pyramidmedia.com/spotlight.html
A movie exposing the most successful cigarette advertising campaign in history, produced in 1976, suppressed in 1979 by Philip Morris, can now be viewed online in its entirety. |
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Smoking News - Topix - http://www.topix.com/health/smoking
News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web. |
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Interview of Dr. Stanton Glantz - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/glantz.html
Frontline interview; covers the Brown and Willaimson documents; the "settlement"; public health activities; the industry. "This is an industry whose whole thinking and behavior has been dominated by avoiding responsibility for its actions". |
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Ben Bagdikian Interview - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html
Media critic notes influence of tobacco advertising on reporting: "papers that used to seize upon every disease - muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, huge articles, pictures of the pitiful victims - never had the same thing about the victims of tobacco". |
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Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies - http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/10.03/SmokeScreen.html
Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry. |
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Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/smokescript.html
Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media. |
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The Search for the Smoking Gun - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-02-07.htm
Book review of Dr. David Kessler's "A Question of Intent" in The Atlantic Monthly; considers the interesting fact that Philip Morris considered buying The Atlantic Monthly in order "to influence the public policy agenda and the information flow to the populace". |
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The Collaborators - http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/collaborators.html
Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it. |
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Coverage of Smoking in Women's Magazines - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp
A review of 13 magazines across 5 months finds they dispense a lot of health advice but say little about smoking. Over that same period, those magazines ran over 300 cigarette ads. |
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FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money - http://www.fair.org/extra/9409/smoke.html
Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry. |
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CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - http://archives.cjr.org/year/95/6/smoking.asp
Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists. |
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TV ACRES: Tobacco Products Section - http://www.tvacres.com/tobacco.htm
Summarizes tobacco products hawked on TV, including having the stars smoke the sponsor's product on the show, as well as later history of cigars and cigarettes and TV stars; provides a list of product slogans used on commercials. |
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Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers - http://www.thenetnet.com/readme/smoke.html
Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz. |
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Youth Smoking and the Media - http://www.impacteen.org/media/home.htm
A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking. |
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washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Report - http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/tobacco.htm
Washington Post's online library of tobacco stories. Includes breaking news, politics and policy, litigation, health issues, teen smoking, industry news, and opinion. |
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Tobacco Access and Media - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3123.htm
Poster session from health conference examines smoking in movies, use of media to send anti-tobacco messages, and developing tobacco media campaigns using youth attitudes. |
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The Partnership: Hard Sell in the Drug War - http://www.pdxnorml.org/Nation030992.html
Article from The Nation discusses on the Partnership for a Drug-Free America discusses its tobacco connections such as Philip Morris funding and free ad space in media that take tobacco advertising. |
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Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape - http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/tp1.html
In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. Includes the text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) from the never-aired show. |
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Tobacco Industry Analysis of Newsweek Article - http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/830606showdown.html
Interanl tobacco industry memo reveals the history and results of tobacco industry pressure on Newsweek to water down a tobacco story. |
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He Who Has the Gold Rules - http://www.ilsr.org/columns/1996/13Feb96.html
Column on media ownership and its influence on how the news gets reported. Example used is RJR's ownership of the Weekly Reader and its coverage for children of tobacco stories. |
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Weblog Special: Big Tobacco - http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,540943,00.html
Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking. |
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The Art Of Manipulation - http://www.artmurals.org/tobacco.htm
Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors. |
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Philip Morris Complains About Ad Placement - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddobitcigad.html
Presents and analyzes a letter that Philip Morris sent to newspapers to complain about where and how its ads ran. |
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Lung Cancer Media Coverage - http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-2001/0001492152&EDATE=
Lung cancer, the leading cancer killer of both men and women, is seriously under-reported when compared to other major cancers, according to a new study. |
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Media Firms Buy Their Way To Political Access - http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg51824.html
Center for Public Integrity report on media political power covers the connections between the tobacco industry and media, such as $1.1 billion in cigarette advertising, and what it buys. |
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Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999 - http://www.ajhb.org/2003/27-1-3.htm
Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics. |
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External Influences on News - http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/feb15.htm
Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations. |
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Fallout from the Tobacco War - http://www.ad-mkt-review.com/public_html/air/ai043.html
Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry. |
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The Nation - Selected Feature - http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/POPs_Inc/press_releases/nation-01.htm
Science writer Philip Hilts, who has written about eighty stories on tobacco, twenty-five on the front page, was summarily removed from that beat three years ago after one particularly uncomplimentary story about Philip Morris. |
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What You Need to Beat Goliath - http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=4493
Essay on journalism, the spiked CBS interview, Wigand, the movie "The Insider", and the real world of journalism under pressure. |
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Tobacco Ads Retreat - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/17/p10s1.htm
Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. |
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Selling Doubt - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/book/chapter5/3.html
Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media. |
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - http://www.monitor.net/monitor/10-30-95/ml-smoke.html
Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry. |
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Philip Hilts interview - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/hilts1.html
Hilts was a New York Times correspondent covering the tobacco beat and has published a book on it. This interview covers the Brown and Williamson papers, industry legal and PR strategy, industry conduct, media response, and industry intimidation of journalists and media. |
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The Cigarette Papers - http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v262i0001_10.htm
The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine. |