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A Hazard Label on Cigarettes. San Francisco Chronicle [Author Will Leave It to Lawyers to Say If A Law Requiring Labels on Cigarette Packs Would Be Unconstitutional But Suggests It Is A Crummy Idea.]

Date: 24 Jun 1964
Length: 1 page
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NEWS CLIPPING
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31 Jan 1996
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Surgeon General
Hew
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300160514-0588
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Brier, R., San Francisco Chronicle
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096
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PW 34 Nt®0033035 r o s. ~ th W hin f 1k t k ht t n June 24, 1964 16 SAN FRANCJ.SCO CIDiONICLE R®ye® O!'l®~' «~ ~;t[i~f, IT A,4ht7H1M the littlc buys and glt'ls ~ dim't ir:,d newspapers, nor even listen t.o friends . A Ilazard La bel ~' I' - - ~n~~i~~tonlously announce they have quit dga- : rPt~P~. ~ : Srcvm:, iC ; nu label cigarettes. •why not label ~ 2 liquor? 11er; t-xly knows a fifth of bourbon will On Zgai~~Irtea~ Z kill you, and ti+e snorts before dinner for thirt,r • ;,ears, and you'ie I1ake~'. O11TE OF Tit~ THINGS lathering the Washington lndeed. any na~itmr of commodittJes can br people no end is the state of your health as lab,,led 1t the Washington folk will cast about them y~olniyw~en~dte~r somewhat distractedly through your ....likr automobiles. The~ monsters knock off 9n 'ytuusand >'eople yearly and Injure a million, and Forty years ago it ++~as beverage alcohol, K-hich when aold eFtould be labeled "Hezardous wh~ some doctort and all prohlbitionlsts said gave yrne e ~+''~° The only harmleas automobile is standing cirrhosis of the liver. So they t y~garage.~~ n~~e strert and you n: abolished beverage alcohol and ~3' y ~ ~ ~~ doubtle~s cirrhosis, until ever~~- ~ The doctors did a noble job with yellow fever body got tired of not having cir- :and the Anopheles mosquito, but just how far should as o g e g o o one go encourag eep i 1 hoH• it's ciearettes. Some 7SIdR®'.llf; your health for your They never cease their quest doctors sav thev wiu eet veu_ and 3 tl~ ~~SII B for Law, you xnow. •rne wnrer is qurce oojecttve in ancholic, or denial, side, because Ington they always take the mel- ~j a ew. some sa nonsense, but In Wash. ~ ! tnts mquuy, as u, nun crgare+tes isste otan anar little boys and girls don't know what's good for them until their Washington elders deturmine what'8 good for thent. So awhile back they issued what they call the Sut'geon General's Report, saving cigarettes ara bad for you, and there's been ahell of a J1ap about it ever since. x A e B DgL>t,TLRIOUB EFJP'BGT of this has been that they are cutting down on the gorgeous babes In cigarette commercials, and showing you a little pick sorting out the granules of chv,ttiwal In a filter. The erolic appeal of a heap of charcoat gran- ules Is, you'Il allow, no more than a traoe. Any%'qy. the Washington folk these Mghts are slaving in tooms blue with d tte amoke, devlsing euangellaal schemes for ng you of[ dgarettes. The prescribed procedure Law. A skull and crossbones on a cigatr.tte palek will be outre, even In Washhtgton, so Department uf Health, etc., had to settle for less. They went before a House committee yesterday pit~tng a la++ requiring labels on packs warning that tfte contents are hazardous to health. We will leave It to the lawyers to say ff thfa law would be uncottstitutlonai, and iust su,ggest It 7s a m=py. idea.

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