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.
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.
CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology
Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.
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.
External Influences on News
Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.
Me, the Media, and Addiction
Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking.
Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On
How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.
BBC News - Smoking
BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking.
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.
How Business Strategy Shapes Media
Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example.
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.
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.
Fallout from the Tobacco War
Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999
Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics.
The Art Of Manipulation
Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.
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.
Tobacco Ads Retreat
Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines.
Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image
Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending.
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.
Weblog Special: Big Tobacco
Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.
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.
Youth Smoking and the Media
A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.
Selling Doubt
Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
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.
Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits
Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship
Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry.
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.
The Cigarette Papers
The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies
Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.
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".
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 tobacco".
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 journalists and media.
Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand
Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
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.
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.
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.
Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine
Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.
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.
Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy
Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris.
RTNDF Political Coverage Project
Advice from the pros on how to get and cover politial stories and helpful resources on the net; tobacco frequently used as an example.
Quality of Research on Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Different Sponsors
Research on research examines how sponsorship affects quality and content, and also how media reports the science.
Tobacco-Free Periodicals
Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence.
How Philip Morris Influences Major Media
An internal Philip Morris memo explains how it influences journalists and gets favorable articles and commentaries, through strategies such as sponsoring journalism interns.
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 flow to the populace".
Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers
Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
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.
The Collaborators
Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
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.
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.
Smoking News - Topix.net
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.
Daybreak Articles on Tobacco
Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.
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.
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