The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
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)
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)
Washington DOC (Robert Jaffe, MD): “Smokers Have Got Nobody” (00:29)
“Please don’t smoke, baby” (00:29)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa DOC (Rick Richards, MD): TV news stories compilation (02:10)
Sports
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
WABC-TV New York News Story on DOC ad censored by The New York Times, 1985
1992- Alan Blum, MD on CBS This Morning with Paula Zahn
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
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
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
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)
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
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
Investigative TV News Stories “City Under Siege” Ned Hibberd, Houston, Texas Late-1990s
Tobacco Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
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