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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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Pro-tobacco Editorial Content of Young Men's Magazines rises by 70% between 1991 and 2000 - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7382/182/a
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. |
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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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The Collaborators - http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/collaborators.html
Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Print Media Coverage of California's Smokefree Bar Law - http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/2.1b-MagzamenMedia.pdf
Content analysis reveals the nature and extent of tobacco industry influence of print media coverage following implementation of California's smokefree bars. |
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Exposé 'Journalist' Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco - http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html
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. |
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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. |
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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. |