The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

Online Video / Audio Highlights

First News Story on DOC (Doctors Ought to Care):

WTVJ-TV, Channel 4, Miami–Reporter Bob Jackson on DOC’s Anti-smoking Bus Bench Ad Campaign (01:22)

Audio recording with slideshow Focus 96.5, WFMR, Milwaukee 1980: First in depth radio interview with Alan Blum, MD about DOC, 1980 (15:00)

Audio recording “The Human Condition” National radio program from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, University of Texas, Austin– Interview by Bert Kruger Smith of Alan Blum, MD about DOC, 1980 (24:59)

DOC’s Superhealth ’79 Conference, December 1978, University of Miami:

WCIX-TV, Channel 6, Miami–Reporter Gloria Albino News Story (01:28)

WTVJ-TV, Channel 4, Miami–Reporter Al Sunshine News Story (01:27)

DOC TV Counter-Advertisements, early-1980s

Mississippi DOC (Tom Houston, MD): “You’ve coughed up long enough, baby”(00:20)

Medical College of Georgia DOC: “I don’t smoke, and I got money…” (00:14)

“Convenience store clerk smoker’s code: one wheeze means extra-lights, one cough means regulars” (00:32)

Washington DOC (Robert Jaffe, MD): “Smokers Have Got Nobody” (00:29)

“Please don’t smoke, baby” (00:29)

“You’re all grown up” (00:29)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa DOC (Rick Richards, MD): TV news stories compilation (02:10)

Sports

WTVJ-TV, Miami Channel 4 News Story – Reporter Bob Jackson: DOC’s House Call on the Virginia Slims Tennis Tournament, January 1978 (01:20)

Sports and Cigarettes: Striking Out Against Tobacco, DOC video of Alan Blum, MD’s keynote presentation at First National Conference on Tobacco Use in America, MD Anderson Cancer Center, January 27, 1989

News Stories and Interviews Featuring DOC

NBC The Today Show Feature Story on DOC —Reporter Eric Burns, 1980

WMAQ-TV Chicago News Story —Reporter Carol Marin on “The Medicine Man vs. the Marlboro Man,” 1980

CBS TV Evening News Story – Bob Faw on African-Americans and Smoking, ca 1985

CBS TV Evening News Story – Dr. Bob Arnot on African-Americans and Smoking, ca 1985

San Francisco TV News Story – Artist Doug Minkler teaching schoolchildren to create DOC counter-advertisements, ca 1986

WABC-TV New York News Story on DOC ad censored by The New York Times, 1985

TV News Story, Augusta, Georgia – DOC House Call on Red Man Chewing Tobacco Country Music Concert, ca 1988

CBS This Morning– Paula Zahn moderating a debate between Alan Blum, MD and Brennan Dawson of the Tobacco Institute

KXTV-News 10, Sacramento, Healthcast reporter Gail Westrup interviews Dr. Rick Richards about DOC’s SuperHealth campaign (01:42)

1992- Alan Blum, MD on CBS This Morning with Paula Zahn

Laying the Foundation for a National Tobacco Museum – Two news stories on Houston TV station KHOU (reporter Doug Miller) and KUHT (Patricia Gras), ca. 1997

TV News Story on DOC’s National Tobacco Museum Fundraiser, Houston, 1997 (0:42)

Presentations–Minorities and Smoking

Sui-Genocide: The Killing of Minority Groups by the Tobacco Industry , DOC video presented by Alan Blum, MD at he First National Conference on Cancer in Minority Populations, MD Anderson Cancer Center , 1988

New York City DOC rap video, 1987 (Ed Anselm, MD) – “McSmoke & Nikki Teen”

Video Clip from “Medicine vs. Madison Avenue”– DeLoyd Parker on “Liberation Cigarettes”

Video Clips from “Medicine vs. Madison Avenue” – DeLoyd Parker and Juan Palomo

Alive with Pleasure, Dead with Disease, video of Arkansas Department of Health keynote presentation by Alan Blum, MD with McSmoke & Nikki Teen rap video at beginning

A History of Cigarette Marketing Targeted to African-Americans

DOC’s Paid Anti-Smoking Radio Ads Created by Tony Schwartz, 1984

“Selling Death,”

Guerilla Media, Tony Schwartz recording, Introduction by Mayor Ed Koch

Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

Surgeon General’s Report on Cigarettes and Commercials

Highlights of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report plus Cigarette Commercials

Stamping Out Smoking

CBS Reports: Harry Reasoner special on the Surgeon General’s Report, March 1964

CBS News Special Report, “Smoking–A health hazard of sufficient importance”, 1964

NBC Special Report on the Surgeon General’s Report, 1964

Doctors Ought to Care Videos

“Medicine vs. Madison Avenue: Fighting Smoke with Fire,” 1992 (30:00)

“Smoke That Cigarette,” 1988 (51:00)

CSTS Videos

“Blowing Smoke: The Lost Legacy of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report,” 2013 (24:00)

“When More Doctors Smoked Camels” – Gallery Tour of the Center’s Exhibition on the 50th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report (15:00)

Highlights of the Symposium at Gorgas Library to Commemorate the 50^th Anniversary of the Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health, October 2013 (59:00)

Videos Potpourri

QED –Documentary on BUGA-Up and other Australian anti-smoking activism, 1983 (26:35)

Confessions of a Simple Surgeon, a film by Dr. Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, Australia

ABC National News Story on Cigarette Advertising Warning Labels Not Being Perceived (The Eye-Tracking Study) featuring Dr. Rick Richards

Video Clip – DOC House Call at the California State Fair Rodeo to Protest Presence of SKOAL and Copenhagen as Sponsors, 1992

Smokeless Tobacco: A New Threat to Public Health Presented by Drs. Alan Blum and Thomas Robbins. The Network for Continuing Medical Education, 1986. (20:00)

Pharmacy and Tobacco Videos

“Your Drug Store and Cancer Center,” Buffalo Museum of Science, 2009

Dr. Heather Hoffman Reports on “Your Drug Store and Cancer Center,” installation at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health, 2009

Investigative TV News Stories “City Under Siege” Ned Hibberd, Houston, Texas Late-1990s

Tobacco Industry Sponsorship of the Arts

Texas Cigarette Billboard Ban

Tobacco Industry-Funded Cancer Research

Influeced of the Tobacco Industry in New York City

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Hosts Philip Morris-Sponsored Exhibition by John Biggers

Alan Blum, MD Testimony in Opposition to FDA Tobacco Bill, US Senate HELP Committee, 2007

Presentations

“Obesity in Alabama: The Big Picture,” 2012

TEDx Talk by Alan Blum, MD: “The Lost Legacy of Surgeon General’s Report,” 2016 (18:36)

Obesity in Alabama – Mass media- A double-edged sword

“Merry X-Ray and A Happy New Lung”

Introduction to Medical Humanities – Seeing Patients July 17, 2020

US Historical Tobacco Timeline, “Confronting America’s Smoking Pandemic,” published by The Cancer Network in four parts in 2015 and 2016:

U.S. Tobacco Timeline