Wing Tang Wong

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on November 1, 1995. The length of the article is 5374 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: ABC's "Day One" broadcast about the tobacco industry's manipulation of nicotine levels in cigarettes had some flaws in the reporting, but its main premise was sound and has led to heightened government efforts to regulate tobacco as a drug. ABC's report suggested that the tobacco companies were spiking the cigarettes with nicotine from outside sources, an allegation ABC could not prove. The tobacco companies contended that no extra levels of nicotine that did not naturally occur in tobacco were added during the reconstitution process. However, the companies did admit spraying nicotine back into the cigarettes to restore it to its previous levels, and nicotine is an addictive drug.Citation DetailsTitle: Up in smoke: ABC's "Day One" story on tobacco was flawed. But its apology to Philip Morris has overshadowed the fact that its central theme was on target and fuels the drive to regulate tobacco products as drugs.Author: Alicia C. ShepardPublication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)Date: November 1, 1995Publisher: University of MarylandVolume: v17 Issue: n9 Page: p28(7)Distributed by Thomson Gale