The Art Of Manipulation - Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.
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 tobacco".
Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Selling Doubt - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
Smoking News - Topix - News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
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 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.
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.
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.
Weblog Special: Big Tobacco - Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.
Youth Smoking and the Media - A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.
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. [PDF] (March 7, 2001)
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. (December 20, 1999)
Tobacco Ads Retreat - Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. (November 17, 1999)
Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry. (October 30, 1995)
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. (March 9, 1992)
