The videos featured on this page encapsulate tobacco industry concerns and resultant strategies regarding secondhand smoke
(referred to by the industry as "environmental tobacco smoke" or simply "ETS.") They are a few of the several hundred
videos housed in BAT's Guildford Depository. Current plans include acquiring all videos from the depository in addition to all documents. More
information about the project can be found here.
Clicking on a video title will lead you from the BATDA website to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos Collection on the
Internet Archive, where you can view the video or download it to your computer to watch later. Additional tobacco industry
videos are available at Internet Archive as well. View a browsable
list of keywords.
To provide context and avenues for further exploration, links to related documents and references
to related publications accompany each title.
Note that not all of the videos were created by BAT; some were produced by the Tobacco Institute or one of the U.S. companies.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke: BAT's Reply
BAT responds to efforts to limit individuals' exposure to secondhand smoke. The company questions the
scientific validity of public health research about secondhand smoke, conducts its own research showing that secondhand
smoke is not a danger to public health, and points to poor ventilation and filtration as the cause of indoor air pollution.
The video features as experts long-time consultants to the industry without identifying them as such.
View documents about activities of expert consultants
Gray Robertson and
Francis Roe
on behalf of BAT and the tobacco industry in general.
Related articles:
Chapman S. Research from tobacco industry affiliated authors: Need for particular vigilance. Tobacco Control 2005;14:217-219.
Muggli ME, Hurt RD, Blanke DD. Science for hire: a tobacco industry strategy to influence public opinion on
secondhand smoke. Nicotine Tob Res 2003;5:303-14.
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The Other Side of the Coin - Part 1
The Other Side of the Coin - Part 2
Produced by BAT and Rothmans International, this video addresses, for a
British audience, four issues: "smoking and health, tobacco smoke in the air, smoking in public and tobacco advertising."
Read a draft script
and draft of a companion pamphlet,
to see how the message was crafted.
View the final pamphlet.
Read a document noting that this video,
which questions whether active smoking causes disease, was shown in Bangladesh as late as 1997.
Related articles:
Michaels D, Monforton C. Manufacturing uncertainty: Contested science and the protection of the public's health
and environment. American Journal of Public Health 2005;95 (suppl 1):s39-48.
Ong E, Glantz S. Constructing "Sound Science" and "Good Epidemiology": Tobacco, lawyers, and public relations firms.
American Journal of Public Health 2001;91:1749-1757.
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Smoking in the Workplace
Smoking in the Workplace addresses the "controversy" surrounding secondhand smoke in the workplace.
Citing a lack of evidence that secondhand smoke causes health problems, the video advocates a strategy of
accommodation in response to tobacco control advocates' demands for restrictions on smoking in workplaces.
View the companion pamphlet
and read what BAT was telling its own employees
at about the time this video was produced (1988).
Related articles:
Drope J, Bialous S, Glantz SA. Tobacco industry efforts to present ventilation as an alternative to
smoke-free environments in North America. Tobacco Control 2004;13(Supplement):i41-7.
Chapman S, Penman A. "Can't stop the boy": Philip Morris' use of Healthy Buildings International to prevent
workplace smoking bans in Australia. Tobacco Control 2003;12(Supplement 3):iii107-12.
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Courtesy of Choice
Made for the hospitality industry by the International Hotel Association to promote the "Courtesy of Choice Program",
the video begins with predictions of economic ruin if smoking bans are enacted. The video instructs restaurant and hotel
managers on how to deal with a growing market for smoke free spaces by using a strategy of accommodation.
View a document that describes the program's launch
in Australia as "a major initiative in convincing politicians, that there is no need for further restrictions on public place smoking."
Related articles:
Dearlove J, Bialous S, Glantz SA. Tobacco industry manipulation of the hospitality industry to maintain
smoking in public places. Tobacco Control 2002;11:94-104.
Ritch W, Begay M. Strange bedfellows: the history of collaboration between the Massachusetts Restaurant
Association and the tobacco industry. American Journal of Public Health 2001;91:598-603.
Related website:
Tobacco Scam: How Big Tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant industry
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