Product Placement Critiques Tobacco Pro Advocacy Tobacco Health

Information on placement of cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products in movies and on TV.

• - Formerly secret tobacco industry memo explains exactly how it's done.
  
• - Industry documents produced in Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds provide a rare inside look at product placement. In some cases itemizes the cigarette brand, the promotional fees paid, the movies and TV shows used, stars, and production companies involved.
  
• - Study reveals that Thai teenagers are more likely to smoke if they have been exposed to Hollywood movies; researcher explains how and why.
  
• - Formerly secret tobacco industry memo shows how the tobacco giant paid for actors to smoke cigarettes in movies; movies, actors, and situations are listed.
  
• - 10 page journal article traces the history of product placement, industry influence, and other ties between the tobacco industry and the entertainment industry.
  
• - An educational program to take the glamor out of smoking in the movies.
  
• - BBC article reports on ways the tobacco industry will get around the upcoming tobacco advertising ban in Europe; focus is on product placement and brand stretching.
  
• - How product placement is used to get smoking and specific cigarette brand names featured in movies; particular movies and actors used; history of tobacco industry denial of the practice; current depiction of tobacco use in films.
  
• - Briefly describes and documents tobacco industry product placement of cigarettes in movies.
  
• - MASSPIRG research finds that smoking is increasing in movies despite tobacco industry promises to stop promoting it, the movies usually portray smoking as positive, identifiable brand names are found on cigarettes in scenes, and big name stars are light
  
• - New South Wales Cancer Council provides information on product placement of cigarettes and smoking in movies, and suggestions on how to fight it.
  
• - Recent research at Dartmouth shows the influence of on-screen smoking.
  
• - News article reports on research showing the smoking is still featured in the movies, based on a survey of 250 films released from 1988 to 1997.
  
• - Article in scientific journal provides an unprecedented look at the history and results of tobacco industry investment and influence in moviemaking and imagemaking in Hollywood.
  
• - Covers product placement in movies, print and games as well as cross-licensing where movies generate toys and toys generate movies.
  
• - A short look at use of product placement of tobacco products in movies.
  
• - Australian newspaper article on Australian film stars and filmaking and their promotion of smoking onscreen.
  
• - Hollywood has been colluding with the tobacco industry for years and continues to do so despite a voluntary agreement to curb indirect tobacco advertising in films, a study shows.
  
• - Article from an entertainment industry magazine explores reasons for increased smoking in movies, increased onscreen display of cigarette brands, and possible effects of this.
  
• - Current movie smoking reviews, updated every week, reviewing the top 10 movies for tobacco content and smoking celebrities, by the American Lung Association of Sacramento.
  
• - ASH-UK item uses recent research to draw the inference that tobacco product placement continues.
  
• - Compiled by Quit Australia, lists movies, actors, and cigarette brands promoted, and the effects of this promotion.
  
• - RJR one-page summary of recent product placement of RJR cigarettes in movies. Names the movies and the actors involved.
  
• - A formerly secret memo outlines the movies, the money paid, and the stars who took the money to feature smoking cigarettes in the movies; also details such as the second set of books, the preference for some stars to get paid in jewelry, cash, or cars ins
  
• - Reports that multinational tobacco firms have given filmmakers in Indonesia, India and Thailand cash payments to place their cigarette packs in films.
  
• - Ann Landers column describes how tobacco products end up being used in TV shows.
  
• - The industry pays well-connected brokers to put their product into the hands of the hottest actors. Names actors, movies, and TV shows used.
  
• - Bibliography and annotated list of links on smoking the movies, its causes, development, and effects.
  
• - Analysis of tobacco sponsorship of sports and cultural event, focuses on Canada.
  
• - Knight Ridder article covers movies in which Philip Morris and other tobacco companies did product placement of cigarettes and cigars.
  
• - Study measured tobacco use in the top 250 US box-office films over the last 10 years, finds smoking in over 85%, and sepcific brand appearances in almost 30%.
  
• - With a focus on Australian films and actors, covers the practice of getting paid to feature cigarettes in movies and on TV.
  
• - ASH report summarizes tobacco industry use of product placement in movies, and makes the case it is still continuing.
  
  

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