Sivert Høyem 'Prisoner of the Road' - TV-aksjonen 2010

Sivert Høyem is launching the song "Prisoner of the road" today in order to raise awareness for NRC, which is this year's recipient of the Norwegian National Telethon.

Tobacco industry casts doubt on scientific research

Compilation of documentaries produced or sponsored by tobacco companies. These videos express industry position that stress and genetics rather than smoking causes tobacco related illnesses. Film uses scientists and doctors to refute the Surgeon General's findings that smoking causes lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. Focusing on the weaknesses of an epidemiological approach, videos question the cause and effect relationship between tobacco and disease. Tobacco companies dispute the scientific validity of public health research about secondhand smoke and indentify poor ventilation and filtration as the cause of indoor air pollution.

Whistle Where You Work #14 - A Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Wigand

In a special WWYW episode, we sit down for a lengthy conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, noted tobacco whistleblower and subject of the movie The Insider. In 1995, Dr. Wigand achieved national prominence when he became the tobacco industrys highest ranking former executive to address public health and smoking issues.

The episode was filmed in March 2009 during the National Whistleblowers Assembly.

WWYW is a multimedia program focusing on issues of accountability, that is produced by the Government Accountability Project, the nations leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.




Dr. Jeffrey Wigand testifies about his experience as a whistleblower at a Workforce Protections subcommittee hearing on whistleblower protections on May 15, 2007.

Denying the Evidence of the Internal Tobacco Documents in Argentina

Denying the Evidence of the Internal Tobacco Documents in Argentina from Marty Otañez on Vimeo.

Further on the subject of tobacco industry revelations:

Searching the American Legacy Tobacco Documents

9 students quickly learned how to search the 52 million pages of once secret, internal tobacco industry letters, e-mails, notes and videos. This is the anti-tobacco video we made. "You just never know what you will find"... try searching the American Legacy Library of Tobacco Documents yourself at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/ memefilms is an experiment combining Media Literacy Education, Health Education and Media Production with youth. To see other videos we have made search memefilms on Google Video. James Valastro Director/Cameraman/Editor


Stanford researcher's online map pinpoints cigarette factories around the world

Anthropologist Matthew Kohrman has plotted the international whereabouts of more than 300 cigarette factories, so far. His Cigarette Citadels project gives the public a better understanding of where the tobacco industry operates, and shares information that could combat the single largest cause of preventable death.

US syphilis tests in Guatemala 'crime against humanity'

The Guatemalan President says the US committed a crime against humanity when hundreds in his country were deliberately infected with gonorrhea and syphilis more than sixty years ago. America has apologized for the recently unearthed experiment conducted in a psychiatric hospital. The U.S. says it will investigate the case further, before making any decisions on compensation.