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| Web Pages |
| CJR - Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In |
| "Tobacco companies, when faced with damaging exposure, are increasingly resorting to expensive, intimidating, take-no-prisoners litigation to circumvent the First Amendment, strong-arm the press, silence witnesses, and keep important facts from coming to the public's attention". |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| Partnership for a Drug-Free America: the tobacco connection |
| The Partnership loves to talk about illegal drugs. They are hard pressed to say anything about a drug that kills more Americans than all illegal drugs combined: tobacco. One reason may be, the Partnership has taken cash from Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds. |
| 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. |
| Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On |
| Tobacco industry harrassment of journalists and the media to kill or water down stories on smoking and the tobacco industry. |
| 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. |
| FAIR: Tobacco Wars: The First Casualty Is Candor |
| A hard look at recent tobacco reporting, primarily on TV news: which facts get reported? Which don't? And what utterances get reported as "fact"? |
| CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology |
| Columbia Journalism Review article on Philip Morris's lawsuit against ABC after they ran a hardhitting Day One program on the tobacco industry. |
| Tobacco and the Media |
| Corporate Watch feature on connections between tobacco and the media. |
| USA Today Tobacco Stories |
| Collection of stories on the tobacco industry, its conduct, and litigation. |
| 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. |
| BBC News - Smoking |
| BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking. |
| Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies |
| Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry. |
| 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". |
| Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand |
| Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media. |
| Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers |
| Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine |
| Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting. |
| Kiss My Ash |
| Article highlights the influence of tobacco ad dollars on news content by way of a personal account. |
| Censorship in the Media |
| Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media. |
| The Collaborators |
| Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it. |
| Accuracy in the Tobacco Settlement Ads of 1997-1998 |
| Analysis by policy center at the University of Pennsylvania of the accuracy of a major media campaign by 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. |
| Tobacco Advertising and Counteradvertising |
| CDC provides graphs, tables, reports, and journal articles on the subject. |
| Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy |
| Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Youth Smoking and the Media |
| A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking. |
| P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994 |
| The 1994 Lost In Smoke Award goes to the Weekly Reader, for reasons mentioned. |
| Fallout from the Tobacco War |
| Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry. |
| 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. |
| External Influences on News |
| Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations. |
| How Business Strategy Shapes Media |
| Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting 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. |
| Publishers and their Tobacco Habit |
| Columbia Journalism Review article on connections between cigarette advertising and publisher's policies. |
| Daybreak Articles on Tobacco |
| Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition. |
| 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 Art Of Manipulation |
| Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors. |
| Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image |
| Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Cigarette Papers |
| The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine. |
| 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". |
| Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits |
| Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked". |
| 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. |
| Activist Tells SPJ that Tobacco Companies are Duping the Public |
| Report on a debate sponsored by the Society for Professional Journalism. |
| Smoking Up a Storm |
| CBC Online (Canada) series of articles on tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry. |
| Bibliography on Tobacco Advertising |
| Bibliography of research and analysis articles on tobacco advertising and promotion. |
| Tobacco Ads Retreat |
| Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. |
| Me, the Media, and Addiction |
| Personal essay on media influences in writer's own 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Weblog Special: Big Tobacco |
| Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Smoking News - Topix.net |
| News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web. |
| 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. |
| Tobacco-Free Periodicals |
| Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence. |
| Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999 |
| Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics. |