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Ill Advised Cigarette Edict. Journal [Article States That the Federally Imposed Labeling Order Is An Arbitrary Action Both Discriminatory and Unnecessary.]

Date: 26 Jun 1964
Length: 1 page
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Meyner, R.
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HERALD io8 Angeles, ~,alifOnLt8 ,;use 28, Cigaret Edict The ruling of the Federal Trade Commission requiring ciprat manufacturers to state clearly on every package and in all advertising that . cigaret rooking i8 dangerqus and may cause death, strikes us as bureaucratic Big Daddyism. It rests on two assumptions that we find .repellent wherever they are encountered. 'l"sley are (I) that Amer|cons are not capable of determining as adults and individuals, and on the basis of judging available evidence, whether u practice is ~orOOd or bad, and (2) that there- • the Government has not only the right but the obligation to make the determination for them. By ~e same reasoning the Government shonld r~luire: Warning stickers on bath- Ditto on drivers" licenses,. Ditto on mountain climb- inK: and football equipment, skis, bobsleds, racing cars, md even tennis rackets. Ditto on bottl~ of liquor. And ditto and ditto and ditto. Big Daddy has spoken, but he hasn't had the last word. The tobacco industry ia going to fight the ruling, as it should. HT|O03SO 9 Zlizabe~, Nay ~Terae¥ llI.Advised Cigarette Edict Tin ldohhuded acd~ o~ the Fed- coundess users, laymen and scim- eral Trade Con~ in erd~g a tim, (hmbt the charms. TI~ tobaax) inba~ is to be unmd in cam t~ the dolhm to pro~e itsinnocence-. tndugr~, and it should be. One of the chief functiom of If the~ is a tlueat to life in rook. Federal Trade Commbsion M to ,~. ~ Fil:: says the Mt~is must ~orm honesty end cMrit~ in .lmdact Ix,zrtbecmsltonaryndvic~thatmok- clsimt. Wbm it ia.d~vodo8 hn~ ~ cam ~.ath from ~ ~ad that purpose, it is f.nR.|~, its oMl. other dim~es--then what a~out the ga~a m the tsxpayiq co~ume~. reedy have aoted to po~iue tl~eir vmising, n~ning former Gov. Rob. Patmlm this ~cral regulatory mMeyns~,'saaubdusu'yczar, ile ~enc~p_lameventudlymoetaround 8uppasU~ _wiltsumJa88imtextrav- tlon eo~ ~ttles. m~ i~bit F/o will ba~e ~ 'It l~ true that much evidence has pow~ t~ impose stiff fines. 8S~iciatt to convince many individ, pen. Th,~ federally imposed label~_ .mh and L~YSlclasa and anti.cancer 0Net is .. ,rbitr~ action both m3uiza~lom. On .tbs ~ band, a~instory sad unnecmary.

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