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OK to Represent American Taliban, But Big Tobacco Verboten

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:12:00 +0000

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is attacked on the front page for having once represented Big Tobacco. So how did the Times treat an Obama Justice Department nominee who represented an American Taliban fighter.

Clay Waters

It's enlightening to see what topics Times editors find disturbing and newsworthy and which ones they shrug off or ignore.

'Big Oil' Faces 'the Same Game Plan that Brought Down Big Tobacco'

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:18 +0000

Jeff Poor

Nearly 10 years after the tobacco industry was sued, the same lawyer has brought suit against the energy industry for “conspiring to cover up the threat of man-made climate change.”

“As scientific evidence accumulates on the destructive impact of carbon-dioxide emissions, a handful of lawyers are beginning to bring suits against the major contributors to climate change,” Stephan Faris wrote in the June 2008 Atlantic Monthly.

A Rarely Seen Side of the Tobacco Story

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:20:02 +0000

Dan Gainor

Amidst media coverage of Big Tobacco, one reporter has shown another side of the story – little tobacco?

As the March 27 Wall Street Journal reported, those who want to quit smoking might try tobacco. Smokeless tobacco.

According to the Health Journal story, smokeless tobacco gives buyers the nicotine they crave “while posing a substantially reduced health risk compared with smoking.”

Big Tobacco and the Supreme Court: Double Jeopardy, Civil-Style?

admin — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:49:25 +0000

Ted Frank

Jesse Williams started smoking as a 21-year-old soldier in Korea in 1950. Though Williams was taught as a child that it was unhealthy to smoke, and, in turn, taught his children not to smoke, he refused entreaties from doctors and family to quit smoking. After 45 years of smoking two packs a day, with the packs carrying the Surgeon General’s warnings for nearly 30 of those years, Williams died of inoperable lung cancer. His widow sued Philip Morris for damages on grounds of product design and “fraud.”

Addicted to Tobacco Stories: A One-Sided Portrayal of a Risky Product

kristine.lawrence — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:34:50 +0000

Timothy Lamer

Executive Summary

Reporters consider most risky products newsworthy, but tobacco gets far more coverage than any other risky product, including such illegal drugs as cocaine and marijuana. This is one conclusion of a special year-long, two-part study of news coverage of risky products. The study, conducted by the Media Research Center's Free Market Project, analyzes network morning and evening news shows between August 1, 1995 and July 31, 1996. The study found: