Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape
- In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. Includes the text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) from the never-aired show.
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/tp1.html

Smoking News - Topix
- News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
- http://www.topix.com/health/smoking

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/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp

The Cigarette Papers
- The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
- http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v262i0001_10.htm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RTNDF Political Coverage Project
- Advice from the pros on how to get and cover political stories and resources on the net; tobacco frequently used as an example.
- http://www.rtnda.org/resources/politics/smtmoney.shtml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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