Analysis by policy center at the University of Pennsylvania of the accuracy of a major media campaign by the tobacco industry.

BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking.

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".

Bibliography of research and analysis articles on tobacco advertising and promotion.

Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".

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.

Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media.

Columbia Journalism Review article on Philip Morris's lawsuit against ABC after they ran a hardhitting Day One program on the tobacco industry.

Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.

"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".

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.

Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.

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.

Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.

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.

Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.

Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry.

Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.

Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.

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.

Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example.

An internal Philip Morris memo explains how it influences journalists and gets favorable articles and commentaries, through strategies such as sponsoring journalism interns.

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".

Article highlights the influence of tobacco ad dollars on news content by way of a personal account.

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.

Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking.

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.

Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending.

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.

Presents and analyzes a letter that Philip Morris sent to newspapers to complain about where and how its ads ran.

Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.

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.

Content analysis reveals the nature and extent of tobacco industry influence of print media coverage following implementation of California's smokefree bars.

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.

Columbia Journalism Review article on connections between cigarette advertising and publisher's policies.

Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the influence of magazine cigarette advertising on coverage of tobacco in those magazines.

Research on research examines how sponsorship affects quality and content, and also how media reports the science.

Advice from the pros on how to get and cover politial stories and helpful resources on the net; tobacco frequently used as an example.

How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.

Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.

Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.

Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry.

News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.

CBC Online (Canada) series of articles on tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry.

Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.

The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.

Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines.

Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics.

Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris.

Interanl tobacco industry memo reveals the history and results of tobacco industry pressure on Newsweek to water down a tobacco story.

Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence.

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.

Collection of stories on the tobacco industry, its conduct, and litigation.

Washington Post's online library of tobacco stories. Includes breaking news, politics and policy, litigation, health issues, teen smoking, industry news, and opinion.

Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.

Essay on journalism, the spiked CBS interview, Wigand, the movie "The Insider", and the real world of journalism under pressure.

A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.