 On 20 August 2007, "Media Watch" examined Sandilands' on-air comments asserting that smoking was not as harmful to people as many institutions would lead people to believe and that the statistics presented by these institutions are falsified.These comments led to the Cancer Institute of New South Wales pulling their "13-QUIT" advertisements off the network.On 22 August 2007 Sandilands was interviewed by Andrew Denton for "Enough Rope".