"Death in the West", a Thames Television documentary, is an exposé of the cigarette industry that aired on British television in 1976. In its March/April 1996 issue, "Mother Jones" said of "Death in the West": "It is one of the most powerful anti-smoking films ever made. You will never see it." The second sentence refers to the fact that Philip Morris sued the filmmakers, and in a 1979 secret settlement all copies were suppressed. However, Professor Stanton Glantz released the film and San Francisco's then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV aired the documentary in May 1982.