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&q
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/glantz.html

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.
   http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tp1.html

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. Reyn
   http://www.fair.org/extra/9707/marijuana.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/priorities/0803/advice.html

Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On  
   How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.
   http://nasw.org/users/ASkolnick/naswtob.htm

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

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"?
   http://www.fair.org/media-beat/940720.html

USA Today Tobacco Stories  
   Collection of stories on the tobacco industry, its conduct, and litigation.
   http://www.usatoday.com/news/smoke/smoke00a.htm

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

BBC News - Smoking  
   BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking.
   http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/

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

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
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.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

Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers  
   Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
   http://www.thenetnet.com/readme/smoke.html

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.
   http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9850/cotts.php

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

Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine  
   Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.
   http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/morris.html

Kiss My Ash  
   Article highlights the influence of tobacco ad dollars on news content by way of a personal account.
   http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/ash.htm

Censorship in the Media  
   Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media.
   http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/nfoshti.htm

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

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.
   http://appcpenn.org/appc/reports/s1415rpt.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

Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy  
   Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris.
   http://www.reseau-medias.ca/eng/news/news/two/rupsmoke.htm

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.
   http://www.rtnda.org/resources/politics/smtmoney.shtml

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

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

P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994  
   The 1994 Lost In Smoke Award goes to the Weekly Reader, for reasons mentioned.
   http://www.fair.org/media-beat/941214.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

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.
   http://www.rwjf.org/health/024783.htm

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

How Business Strategy Shapes Media  
   Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example.
   http://saturn.vcu.edu/~dcroteau/370%20Media/business_ch_5.htm

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

Daybreak Articles on Tobacco  
   Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.
   http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/archives/rsch_r-z.html#Tobacco

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 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

Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image  
   Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending.
   http://www.dispatch.com/news/bus00/aug00/396917.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

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

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

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

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=

Smoking Up a Storm  
   CBC Online (Canada) series of articles on tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry.
   http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/smoking/index.html

Bibliography on Tobacco Advertising  
   Bibliography of research and analysis articles on tobacco advertising and promotion.
   http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/resources/mchbib/tobacco.html

Tobacco Ads Retreat  
   Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines.
   http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/17/p10s1.htm

Me, the Media, and Addiction  
   Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking.
   http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/smokeout.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

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

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.
   http://www.smokescreen.org/list/det.cfm?listid=66&MessageID=243609&SearchString=

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

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

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

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

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.
   http://archives.cjr.org/year/94/1/cigarette.asp

Smoking News - Topix.net  
   News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
   http://www.topix.net/health/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.
   http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/2.1b-MagzamenMedia.pdf

Tobacco-Free Periodicals  
   Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence.
   http://www.smokefreebc.org/periodicals.htm

Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999  
   Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics.
   http://www.ajhb.org/2003/27-1-3.htm

CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology  
   Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.
   http://archives.cjr.org/year/95/6/smoking.asp

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

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

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