033 - NYC Collection

It is little appreciated that for most of the past half-century, New York City was the global headquarters of the tobacco industry and its allies: three of the six major cigarette companies; nearly all of their advertising agencies and public relations firms; the three major commercial television networks and the two most influential US newspapers; the top investment firms and banks; the industry-created Council for Tobacco Research; tobacco industry trade journal publishers; and numerous internationally-renowned sports and arts organizations that were beneficiaries of tobacco industry funding.