Legislation
• 1964 Surgeon general established advisory committee
on Tobacco which suggested relationship to cancer in
writing.
• 1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act
requiring surgeon general’s warning on all packs.
• 1971 all broadcast advertising was banned.
• 1990 smoking banned on all interstate buses and
domestic airline flights lasting six hours or less.
www.cnn.com/us/9705/tobacco/history (June 2004)