- Filter Tips
Newsletter covers cigarette advertising and promotion using billboards, clubs, events, charities, magazines, direct mail, auto racing, and examines use of brands, gimmicks, andmoney. http://www.smoke-free.ca/filtertips03/ - FTC: 1997 Smokeless Tobacco Report
Contains tables of advertising dollars spent advertising and promoting spit tobacco by category and by year (from 1985 to 1995). http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/reports/smokeless97.htm - Holy Smoke!
The Virgin Mary was a Marlboro woman--and other marketing that the industry uses abroad. http://www.motherjones.com:80/sideshow/smoke.html - How Tobacco Companies Exploit Teens
USNews article explains how cigarette brand images and ad campaigns are designed for youth appeal. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=19970602007080&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("19970602007080")&p_perpage=10&a - In-store Tobacco Ads
Commentary explains tobacco industry point-of-purchase advertising and promotion; how it works, who gets paid for it, and what mechanisms are used. http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/1998/06/22/editorial2.html - India: A Doctor Takes on Big Tobacco
"It's a huge market in India and South East Asia. Tobacco companies are also targetting youth between 15-25. Two countries where it will zoom up are India and Indonesia". http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/corner/worldnews/other/389.html - Marketing Tactics
Once-secret, court-released, internal industry documents demonstrate tactics toward increasing sales. http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/mktng.cfm - Marketing the Myth of "Light" and "Mild"
Collection of industry promotion strategies in different countries aroundthe world promoting "light" and "mild" cigarettes as less harmful. http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/qofm/0111.html - Marketing Tobacco and the USA
Photos of cigarette ads worldwide, followed by analysis of the tobacco industry strategy of marketing cigarettes by marketing "America". http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/usa.html - Memorandum by Centre For Tobacco Control Research
University of Strathclyde (UK) analysis of tobacco advertising agency documents finds they "provide a unique glimpse into the mindset and tactics of both tobacco advertisers and their clients." http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmhealth/27/27ap29.htm - New Study of Tobacco Retail Marketing
Santa Clara University study finds tobacco industry marketing is giving small retailers more money to push tobacco products. http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/0999/tobacco.html - Operation Storefront Report 1998
Massachusetts study on tobacco point-of-sale advertising analyses where the ads are placed, who is targeted, how pervasive they are, and what results they get. http://www.state.ma.us/dph/mtcp/report/osrep.htm - Peter Brown Cigarette Ads
Magazine and TV ads featuring TV cowboy stars in the 1950's and 1960's http://www.williamsmith.org/camels.html - Project SCUM
Article in San Franscisco Weekly; tobacco industry documents expose an R.J. Reynolds marketing plan targeting S.F. gays and homeless people. Its name: Project SCUM. http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2001-05-02/bayview.html |