- The Collaborators
Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/collaborators.html
- 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
- 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 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".
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-02-07.htm
- 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
- Tobacco and the Media
Corporate Watch feature on connections between tobacco and the media.
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/tobacco/media.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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/archives/V11-3/starr.html
- 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
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