| BBC News - Smoking: BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking. |
| 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". |
| 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. The text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) is now available on this site. |
| CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology: Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists. |
| 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. |
| Daybreak Articles on Tobacco: Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition. |
| 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. |
| Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers: Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz. |
| 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. |
| External Influences on News: Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations. |
| 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. |
| Fallout from the Tobacco War: Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry. |
| Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand: Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media. |
| 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 Business Strategy Shapes Media: Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Me, the Media, and Addiction: Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine: Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| RTNDF Political Coverage Project: Advice from the pros on how to get and cover political stories and resources on the net; tobacco frequently 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. |
| Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies: Harvard Gazette article on reporting on 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. |
| Smoking News - Topix.net: News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web. |
| The Art Of Manipulation: Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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". |
| 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 Ads Retreat: Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. |
| Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999: Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics. |
| Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy: Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris. |
| 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. |
| Tobacco-Free Periodicals: Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Youth Smoking and the Media: A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking. |
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