Surf these sites: 04/FEB/96 CBS 60 MINUTES -- Transcript of the show they finally ran. Big Tobacco''s Deadly Deceits -- Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked". CJR - Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In -- "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". Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape -- 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. Columbia Journalism Review Resources for Tobacco Reporting -- Summary of sources on tobacco for reporteres, editors, and journalists. Department of Justice probes Big Tobacco -- CNN news on the criminial investigation of Big Tobacco. 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". Partnership for a Drug-Free America -- History and analysis. Why doesn''t the Partnership ever mention tobacco in its ads? "It would be suicidal if the Partnership took on the alcohol and tobacco industries. The Partnership is living off free advertising product and space, and the media and ad agencies live off alcohol and tobacco advertising." Partnership for a Drug-Free America: the tobacco connection -- The Partnership loves to talk about illegal drugs. They are hard pressed to say anything about a drug that kills more Americans than all illegal drugs combined: tobacco. One reason may be, the Partnership has taken cash from Philp Morris and R. J. Reynolds. 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.
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