Legislation, politics, and other events
- 1937 Congress creates the National Cancer Institute
- 1943 Mary Lasker starts fundraising, primarily for the Farber Institute
- 1952 Farber Institute opens
- 1965 1st diluted warning label put on cigarettes (originally it was supposed to read “Caution: cigarette smoking is dangerous to health. It may cause death from cancer and other diseases.”) After much lobbying from big tobacco, what gets printed is “Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health
- 1969 FCC wins court case to proportionally advertise against tobacco for each ad they put on TV
- 1971 last tobacco commercial airs on TV in USA
- 1998 Master Settlement Agreement signed between big 4 tobacco companies (now a total of over 50) and 46 states in the US which restricts advertising, disbands trade associations for tobacco, and forces open access to research
How is smoking in Australia? Do they have similar laws, or are they not needed? (i.e. tobacco was never popular?)
ReplyDeletesmoking here is massive, but they do have tons of regulations about where you can smoke
ReplyDeleteyou pretty much cannot smoke indoors ever (except your own home of course)
and they have stronger warning labels and anti-smoking advertising (check out the public service ad campaign here: http://www.quitnow.gov.au/internet/quitnow/publishing.nsf/Content/warnings-posters