Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.

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.

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking.

Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.

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

Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.

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.

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.

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

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

Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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".

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.

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

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

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

Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.

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

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

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.