» Ben Bagdikian Interview - Media critic notes influence of tobacco advertising on reporting: "papers that used to sieze upon every disease -- muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, huge articles, pictures of the pitiful victims -- never had the same thing about the victims of
» Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
» CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.
» Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape - In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. The text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) is now available on this site.
» Coverage of Smoking in Women's Magazines - 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.
» Daybreak Articles on Tobacco - Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.
» Death In The West - 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.
» Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers - Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
» Exposé 'Journalist' Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco - Tobacco PR man Leonard Zahn, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" scientists, and on reporters and news media, for more than a third of a century.
» External Influences on News - Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.
» FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money - Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry.
» Fallout from the Tobacco War - Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
» Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand - Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
» He Who Has the Gold Rules - 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.
» How Business Strategy Shapes Media - Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example.
» Interview of Dr. Stanton Glantz - 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&q
» Lung Cancer Media Coverage - 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.
» Media Firms Buy Their Way To Political Access - 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.
» Philip Hilts interview - 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 journ
» Philip Morris Complains About Ad Placement - Presents and analyzes a letter that Philip Morris sent to newspapers to complain about where and how its ads ran.
» Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine - Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.
» Press Clips: Tobacco Row - Explores a connection between $60,000 worth of tobacco ads in Brill's Content and a six-page article in the magazine that bashes the media for "overstating" the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer.
» Print Media Coverage of California's Smokefree Bar Law - Content analysis reveals the nature and extent of tobacco industry influence of print media coverage following implementation of California's smokefree bars.
» Pro-tobacco Editorial Content of Young Men's Magazines rises by 70% between 1991 and 2000 - Review of the six leading young men's magazines over 10 years finds 5 pages on smoking and health, over 400 pages of tobacco promotion, and a rising tide of pro-tobacco editorial content.
» Publishers and their Tobacco Habit - Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the influence of magazine cigarette advertising on coverage of tobacco in those magazines.
» RTNDF Political Coverage Project - Advice from the pros on how to get and cover political stories and resources on the net; tobacco frequently used as an example.
» Selling Doubt - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
» Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies - Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.
» Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry.
» Smoking News - Topix - News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
» TV ACRES: Tobacco Products Section - 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.
» The Art Of Manipulation - Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.
» The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
» The Collaborators - Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
» The Nation - Selected Feature - 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.
» The Partnership: Hard Sell in the Drug War - 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.
» The Search for the Smoking Gun - 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
» Tobacco Access and Media - 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.
» Tobacco Ads Retreat - Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines.
» Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999 - Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics.
» Tobacco Industry Analysis of Newsweek Article - Interanl tobacco industry memo reveals the history and results of tobacco industry pressure on Newsweek to water down a tobacco story.
» Weblog Special: Big Tobacco - Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.
» What You Need to Beat Goliath - Essay on journalism, the spiked CBS interview, Wigand, the movie "The Insider", and the real world of journalism under pressure.
» Youth Smoking and the Media - A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.
» washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Report - 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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