A fact from Death in the West appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 June 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
The nearly successful efforts prevent release of the original Death in the West documentary and to silence the dying Marlboro cowboys is the background for a key scene in the movie Thank You for Smoking in which the anti-hero, with son/trainee in tow, goes uninvited to the house of one of the dying cowboys who has been actively campaigning against smoking on TV, and successfully buys the dying man's silence by spilling out on the floor a briefcase filled with a million dollars of payola and leaving it behind.
