Health
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- Cigarette Ads Stomp Out Anti-Smoking Efforts
- Study concludes that cigarette ads lead young people to identify smoking with popularity and relaxation, and these associations are stronger than any perceived risk picked up from anti-smoking ads. (June 11, 2001)
- 602
- Cigarette Brand Preferences Among Adolescents
- Paper from the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Concludes: "The very high rates of cigarette smoking found among American teenagers in the late 1990s are associated with the popularity of just three brands..." [PDF] (January 01, 1999)
- 604
- Addicting the Young
- Article on recent tobacco industry tactics to recruit young customers, such as cartoon characters in cigarette ads, rock music promotions, and making cigarettes easily available to youth. (July 01, 1992)
- 605
- Did Big Tobacco Deliberately Withhold Election Expenses in Boulder?
- From GASP of Colorado Education Center, summary of evidence that the tobacco industry was funding and organizing opposition to a Boulder smoke free ordinance.
- 607
- Philip Morris's Secondhand Smoke Media Strategy
- Internal document from Philip Morris executive describes its strategies for fighting the EPA's scientific report on secondhand smoke, including "concentrating all the EPA's enemies against it".
- 609
- Philip Morris Gave Secret Grants to Swedish Professor
- Article about Swedish professor R. Rylander, accused of having secretely worked for the tobacco industry, sheds light on tobacco industry funding of research intended to create doubt about health effects. (June 10, 2002)
- 610
- Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue
- Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'keep the controversy alive,' according to a 1988 internal tobacco company document." (May 09, 1997)
- 611
- Tobacco Science Wars
- Article in Science reports the tobacco industry has been bullying scientists, according to researchers who lead the campaign against secondhand smoke. (April 17, 1987)
- 612
- Smoke Free Movies
- UCSF project challenges the movie industry to stop taking cash or other arrangements for featuring tobacco brands in their films; gives examples and statistics on how much smoking goes on on-screen.
- 613
- Marketing Cigarettes in Cinema Films
- Study measured tobacco use in the top 250 US box-office films over the last 10 years, finds smoking in over 85%, and specific brand appearances in almost 30%.
- 615
- Good-looking Guerillas Push Smokes
- Tobacco companies are using the latest guerilla marketing tactics in bars and clubs to push cigarettes. (February 28, 2004)
- 616
- Sponsorship
- Case study of tobacco industry marketing documents shows that tobacco sponsorship works in a very similar manner to tobacco advertising (PDF document). [PDF] (November 01, 2003)
- 617
- Racing to Addiction: Tobacco Company Auto Racing Sponsorships
- Factsheet lists events, approaches, and amount of TV time gained to promote cigarettes. [PDF] (July 31, 2000)
- 618
- Brand-stretching
- ASH-UK briefing on brand-stretching: the use of tobacco brand names on non-tobacco merchandise or services to get around bans on direct advertising.