Is Big Tobacco Stealth Marketing to YouTubers?
I was stunned to learn that Youtube videos containing smoking imagery may be paid for by tobacco companies. Some of these videos with smoking imagery include anywhere from vlogs to movie clips. It’s sad, but in hindsight, given the tobacco industry’s track record, I shouldn’t have been surprised…
For more information:
1) One of the papers I cite is Freeman and Chapman’s paper on Youtube:
http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/futuretc/docs/index.htm
This paper is in press and I received permission to cite it.
2) I also cite Dr. Allan Brandt’s lecture at Harvard Medical School, 2/15/07, as one of my main sources. For more information, please read his book, The Cigarette Century.
3) For information on the actual documents showing the misleading historical trends of the tobacco companies:
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu
http://tobaccodocuments.org
Please if you can make a better video than I can, please make it. The message needs to be broadly available.
P.S. I wanted to point out something important: that the opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of Harvard Medical School, its affiliated institutions, or Harvard University. Also, I’m just a medical student, so my posts are hopefully conversation starters, but only conversation starters — not medical advice. If my posts intrigue you, please read more about the topic and discuss about it with your doctor. I’d be happy to send you the information in the journal articles I talk about. Best wishes!
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Dear All,