Web Directory

» Ben Bagdikian Interview
   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 tobacc
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html

» Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits
   Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
   http://www.midtod.com/bestof.phtml

» Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape
   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.
   http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/tp1.html

» 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.
   http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp

» 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.
   http://www.pyramidmedia.com/spotlight.html

» 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.
   http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html

» External Influences on News
   Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.
   http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/feb15.htm

» 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.
   http://www.fair.org/extra/9409/smoke.html

» Fallout from the Tobacco War
   Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
   http://www.ad-mkt-review.com/public_html/air/ai043.html

» Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand
   Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/smokescript.html

» 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.
   http://www.ilsr.org/columns/1996/13Feb96.html

» 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".
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/glantz.html

» 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.
   http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-2001/0001492152&EDATE=

» 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.
   http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg51824.html

» 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 journa
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/hilts1.html

» 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.
   http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddobitcigad.html

» 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.
   http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/2.1b-MagzamenMedia.pdf

» 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.
   http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7382/182/a

» Selling Doubt
   Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
   http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/book/chapter5/3.html

» Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies
   Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.
   http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/10.03/SmokeScreen.html

» Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship
   Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry.
   http://www.monitor.net/monitor/10-30-95/ml-smoke.html

» Smoking News - Topix
   News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
   http://www.topix.com/health/smoking

» 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.
   http://www.tvacres.com/tobacco.htm

» The Art Of Manipulation
   Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.
   http://www.artmurals.org/tobacco.htm

» The Collaborators
   Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
   http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/collaborators.html

» 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.
   http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/POPs_Inc/press_releases/nation-01.htm

» 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.
   http://www.pdxnorml.org/Nation030992.html

» 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 pop
   http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-02-07.htm

» 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.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3123.htm

» 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.
   http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/830606showdown.html

» Weblog Special: Big Tobacco
   Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,540943,00.html

» 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.
   http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=4493

» Youth Smoking and the Media
   A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.
   http://www.impacteen.org/media/home.htm

» 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.
   http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/tobacco.htm