News Coverage in the 50 Years since the Surgeon General's Report
Detailed list of clips:
1. One of the earliest anti-smoking advertisements on TV, created by
Tony Schwartz for the
American Cancer Society, ca.
1961 (@ 00:14)
2. Comments by
Senator Maurine Neuberger on power of the tobacco industry;
CBS Reports (
March 1964) (@ 01:20)
3. Senator
Robert Kennedy addresses the
World Conference on
Smoking and
Health with proposed regulations on the tobacco industry;
ABC News,
September 11,
1967 (@ 02:01)
4. The targeting of African-Americans by the tobacco industry, reported by Bob Faw;
CBS News, ca.
1986 (@ 04:14)
5. How cigarette makers influence minority groups, reported by
Dr. Bob Arnot; CBS News, ca. 1986 (@ 07:47)
6. Debate on the dangers of second-hand smoke between Brennan
Dawson of the
Tobacco Institute and
Alan Blum, MD, moderated by
Paula Zahn;
CBS This Morning,
1992 (@ 12:53)
7.
Banning tobacco billboards, reported by Ned Hibberd;
City Under Siege,
KRIV-TV,
Houston,
1995 (@ 17:13)
8.
Tobacco industry funding of cancer research, reported by Ned Hibberd; City Under Siege, KRIV-TV, Houston, 1995 (@ 21:19)
9. Tobacco industry sponsorship of the arts, reported by Ned Hibberd; City Under Siege, KRIV-TV, Houston, 1995 (@ 28:33)
10.
Interview with Alan Blum, MD on anti-smoking activism,
KUHT-TV, Houston,
1996 (@ 34:05)
11. Interview of a
Philip Morris recruiter by Alan Blum, MD at a reception on a university campus,
February 2006 (@ 39:00)
12.
Testimony by Alan Blum, MD at the
US Senate Committee on
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on the
Family Smoking
Prevention and
Tobacco Control Act February 27,
2007 (@ 47:11)