public health cigarette smoking act 1970 FDA issues graphic cigarette labels

59 years ago today, LBJ signs the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act into law. The bill requires cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking :

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Cigarette ads were banned in 1971. Interesting spelling of the word in Billboard 1970. Here's a fun article about how Country Music picked up the cancer causing slack! #concert #concerts

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Henry Waxman and Big Tobacco

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On this day in 1970, President Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, creating a ban on cigarette ads on television and ads effective January 1, 1971 and requiring

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Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public

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Government Chooses Nine Graphic Images for Cigarette Packs

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The 50th Anniversary of the US Surgeon General's Report on Tobacco: What We've Accomplished and Where We Go From Here

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