The BADvertising Institute
- Anti-smoking/tobacco advertising. Sells posters and slides; runs workshops and seminars; but primarily known for images that are funny, intense, intensely funny.
- http://badvertising.org/
Cancer Equals Altria - Visual humor exploring the Altria logo. - http://www.empty-handed.com/archive/2002_04_30.html#000212
Jim Borgman - Tobacco Gallery - Political cartoons by Jim Borgman, focusing on tobacco and the tobacco industry. - http://borgman.enquirer.com/gallery2/tobacco_gallery.html
I Can Quit Anytime I Want - Pulizter prize winning cartoon for 1995. - http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1995/editorial-cartooning/works/images/smoke.gif
Dave Barry on "Dave" Cigarettes - Column by humorist Dave Barry on Philip Morris's "Dave" cigarettes. - http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-96/07-28-96/e02li154.htm
Licensed to Kill, Inc. - Licensed to Kill is a tobacco company, incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They knowingly kill people for profit. And they are proud of it. - http://www.licensedtokill.biz/
The Top 15 New Products from Philip Morris/Nabisco - Tobacco behemoth Philip Morris recently announced that it is acquiring food monstrosity Nabisco. What new products can we expect to see now? - http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5070600.shtml
Cartoons - Political cartoons on tobacco issues topical around 1998. - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/1/80
We are Americans, too - Spoof of the Philip Morris name change ("Altria"). - http://altria.nu/
Play it again - Collection of recent quotes reveals some dark humor. E.g. "It's nice that while Philip Morris is killing about 200 000 people every year that they're also doing something for the homeless." - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/104
Getting around Advertising Restrictions - Humorous article by a filmmaker documents some new approaches to promoting product. - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/100
Gasp! by Frank Freudberg - A novel of revenge about a journalist dying of lung cancer who wants to destroy the tobacco industry while being pursued by an ex-cop whose own problems help him track down the madman. - http://www.freudberg.com/