A compilation of News Coverage in the 50 Years since the Surgeon General’s Report shows a developing campaign against smoking and tobacco use – and the response from the tobacco industry.
Detailed list of clips:
Clip 1: One of the earliest anti-smoking advertisements on TV, created by Tony Schwartz for the American Cancer Society, ca. 1961 (@ 00:14)
Clip 2: Comments by Senator Maurine Neuberger on power of the tobacco industry; CBS Reports (March 1964) (@ 01:20)
Clip 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)
Clip 4: The targeting of African-Americans by the tobacco industry, reported by Bob Faw; CBS News, ca. 1986 (@ 04:14)
Clip 5: How cigarette makers influence minority groups, reported by Dr. Bob Arnot; CBS News, ca. 1986 (@ 07:47)
Clip 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)
Clip 7: Banning tobacco billboards, reported by Ned Hibberd; City Under Siege, KRIV-TV, Houston, 1995 (@ 17:13)
Clip 8: Tobacco industry funding of cancer research, reported by Ned Hibberd; City Under Siege, KRIV-TV, Houston, 1995 (@ 21:19)
Clip 9: Tobacco industry sponsorship of the arts, reported by Ned Hibberd; City Under Siege, KRIV-TV, Houston, 1995 (@ 28:33)
Clip 10: Interview with Alan Blum, MD on anti-smoking activism, KUHT-TV, Houston, 1996 (@ 34:05)
Clip 11: Interview of a Philip Morris recruiter by Alan Blum, MD at a reception on a university campus, February 2006 (@ 39:00)
Clip 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)
