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- 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.
- Activity Report -- R. J. Reynolds - Formerly secret tobacco industry memo shows how the tobacco giant paid for actors to smoke cigarettes in movies; movies, actors, and situations are listed.
- Brown and Williamson Tobacco Product Placement in the Movies - 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 instead of checks, and TV shows used.
- Carleton Product Placement - Formerly secret tobacco industry memo explains exactly how it's done.
- Fighting Smoking in Movies - New South Wales Cancer Council provides information on product placement of cigarettes and smoking in movies, and suggestions on how to fight it.
- Hollywood Still Glorifying Tobacco Use - 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.
- How the Tobacco Industry Built its Relationship with Hollywood - 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.
- 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%.
- Motion Picture Summary Worksheet - RJR one-page summary of recent product placement of RJR cigarettes in movies. Names the movies and the actors involved.
- Movie Smoking Linked To Teens Trying First Cigarette - Recent research at Dartmouth shows the influence of on-screen smoking.
- Product Placement: Joe Camel Campaign - 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.
- Smoke Free Movies: Go Deeper - Bibliography and annotated list of links on smoking the movies, its causes, development, and effects.
- Smoke Screeners - An educational program to take the glamor out of smoking in the movies.
- Smoking In Movies - 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.
- Smoking in Movies - ASH report summarizes tobacco industry use of product placement in movies, and makes the case it is still continuing.
- Tobacco Product Placement in the Movies - Compiled by Quit Australia, lists movies, actors, and cigarette brands promoted, and the effects of this promotion.
- Tobacco Sponsorships: Buying Credibility - Analysis of tobacco sponsorship of sports and cultural event, focuses on Canada.
- Smokescreen a Blessing for Promotion of Tobacco Products - Australian newspaper article on Australian film stars and filmmaking and their promotion of smoking on screen. (March 23, 2002)
- Study Reports Hollywood, Tobacco Industry 'Collusion' - 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. (March 12, 2002)
- Hollywood Puts Thai Teenagers on Tobacco Road - Study reveals that Thai teenagers are more likely to smoke if they have been exposed to Hollywood movies; researcher explains how and why. (May 12, 1999)
- Tobacco Persists on Silver Screen; Even Muppets Market to Kids - Knight Ridder article covers movies in which Philip Morris and other tobacco companies did product placement of cigarettes and cigars. (March 22, 1998)
- TheBusiness of Selling Cigarettes - 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. (March 19, 1998)