Directory of Product Placement Resources

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

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• Activity Report -- R. J. Reynolds

  http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dyx62d00
  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

  http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=jhb50f00&fmt=gif&ref=results&title=AUDIT+SURVEY+-+ASSOCIATED+FILM+PROMOTIONS&bates=680118057/8066
  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

  http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=pxl85f00&fmt=gif&ref=results&title=Motion+Picture+Placement+Of+Cigarettes,+Cigars+Of+Smoking+Tobaccos&bates=ATX040225166
  Formerly secret tobacco industry memo explains exactly how it's done.

• How the Tobacco Industry Built its Relationship with Hollywood

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/suppl_1/i81.full
  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

  http://www.mascotcoalition.org/education/movies/lancet.html
  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

  http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/bca72d00
  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

  http://unisci.com/stories/20014/1217015.htm
  Recent research at Dartmouth shows the influence of on-screen smoking.

• Product Placement: Joe Camel Campaign

  http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/egx62d00
  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

  http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/
  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.

• Smoke Screeners

  http://www.fablevision.com/smokescreeners/
  An educational program to take the glamor out of smoking in the movies.

• Smokescreen a Blessing for Promotion of Tobacco Products

  http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/22/enttribal23.htm
  Australian newspaper article on Australian film stars and filmmaking and their promotion of smoking on screen.

• Smoking In Movies

  http://www.scenesmoking.org/
  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.

• Study Reports Hollywood, Tobacco Industry 'Collusion'

  http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0312024.htm
  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.

• TheBusiness of Selling Cigarettes

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/background_briefings/smoking/86661.stm
  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.

• Tobacco Persists on Silver Screen; Even Muppets Market to Kids

  http://www.vistagroupusa.com/timespicayune.htm
  Knight Ridder article covers movies in which Philip Morris and other tobacco companies did product placement of cigarettes and cigars.

 

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