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F.T.C. Cigaret Ruling Opens Way to Abuse. Times Leader [Questions the Validity of the Ruling]
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Related Documents:- HT0033002-3002 Informational Memorandum, Regular Summary of Recent News and Editorial Comment [Hearings on Proposed Cigarette Legislation Were Highlighted by the Announcement of the Ftc Labeling Requirement on June 24, 1964 and the Industrys Reaction the Following Day. Media Coverage Accorded These Developments Was Extensive.]
- HT0033003-3003 Agencies at Odds on Tobacco Rules, Drugs and Trade Control Units Vie for Authority . New York Times [Inner Government Dispute Over Cigarette Smoking Erupted in Public This Date with A Warning That the Result Could Be No Federal Regulation at All.]
- HT0033003-3003_D1 Agencies Split on Cigarette Warning. Tribune [Government Agencies Split Over Best Way to Warn the Public of the Health Dangers of Cigarette Smoking.]
- HT0033004-3004 Health Warning Label Ordered for Cigarettes, But Challenges May Arise in Court, Congress . The Washington Post [the Ftc Has Ruled That Cigarettes Will Have to Bear A Warning Label That They Are Hazardous to Health and May Cause Death.]
- HT0033005-3006 Ftc Rules Cigarette Labels, Ads Must Warn Consumers of Danger, Order Almost Sure to Face Court Action, Effective Dates Jan 1 for Labels, July 1965 for Ads. Durham Morning Herald [Requirement That All Labels Must Warn That Smoking May Cause Death From Cancer and Other Disease]
- HT0033007-3007 Ftc Requires Cigaret Labels, Ads to Warn Smoking May Cause Death. Wall Street Journal [Label Ruling Effectiv Jan. 1, Ad Deadline Is July 1, 1965; Appeal Could Cause Delay]
- HT0033007-3007_D1 Tobacco Firms Surprised. Wall Street Journal [Ruling on Cigaret Advertising and Labeling Caused the Prices of Tobacco Shares to Drop]
- HT0033008-3008 U.S. To Require Health Warning for Cigarettes . New York Times, [Trade Commision Orders That Package Labels Tell of Danger of Cancer; Rule Effective Jan 1; Advertising Curb May Also Be Included in Regulation; Tobacco Stocks Drop]
- HT0033008-3008_D1 Ama Sees Health Hazard. Ny Times [Resolution Passed Affirming That A Significant Relationship Between Smoking and Cancer and Other Diseases Is Recognized]
- HT0033009-3009 in Ads, Too; Cigarette Warning Issued, Courier Journal [Final Order Issued to Require Conspicuous Health Warning on Cigarette Packages and on Cigarette Advertisements]
- HT0033010-3010 Court Fight Seen on Tobacco Rule. Ny Times [Health Warning Label on Packages Could Be Delayed for Years; New Bill Is Offered; Industry Leader Challenges Ftcs Legal Authority to Issue Regulation]
- HT0033010-3010_D1 Cigaret Industry to Fight Ftc Health Hazard Edict. Chicago Amer [Tobacco Industry Decision to Go to Court to Block Requirement Concerning Warning Labels]
- HT0033011-3011 Ftc Authority Disputed, Cigaret Makers Charge U.S. Grab, Post-Gazette [Long Court Fight Is Assured Against Advertising Warning]
- HT0033012-3012 Firms to Fight Cigarette Rule, House Is Told. Evening Star [Legality of Ftc Health Warning Order Challenged]
- HT0033012-3012_D1 Ftcs Stiff Antismoking Rules Are Likely to Be Altered by Law; Industry Hits Agency. Wall Street Journal [the Ftcs New Antismoking Regulations Provoked Numerous Proposals in Congressional Halls Yesterdays for Ways to Block or Ease the Stiff Rules]
- HT0033013-3013 6 Year Delay on Cigarette Label Possible, Washington Post [Court Contests Could Delay Enforcement of the Ftcs New Regulation Branding Cigarettes for As Long As 6 Years According to the Chairman of the House Commerce Comm]
- HT0033014-3014 Industry Calls Cigarette Edict Unwise, Unfair; La Times [Tobacco Industry Threatens to Go to Court to Keep Ftc From Branding Cigarettes As Health Hazard]
- HT0033015-3015 Makers Vow Fight Against Cigaret Rule. Tribune [A Spokesman for the Amer Cigarette Manufacturers Today Pledged His Industry to A Court Fight Against the Ftcs Labeling and Advertising Ruling]
- HT0033017-3017 Leaf Industry May Accept Mild Label. News and Observer [Industry Quietly Altering Its All Opposition to Health Hazard Labeling on Cigarette Packages]
- HT0033018-3018 George Allen Responds to Ftc Order on Smoking. Huntley Brinkley Report, Wnbc-Tv & Nbc Tv Network [Response Presented in the Form of Quotes by Brinkley and Allen]
- HT0033018-3018_D1 Tobacco Industry to Fight Ftcs Health Order. Walter Cronkite, Cbs News, Station Wcbs-Tv and the Cbs-Tv Network [Presents Testimoy by Rjrs Chairman of the Board Challenging the Ftcs Legal Authority]
- HT0033019-3019 Cigarette Industry Calls Ftc Ruling Unlawful. News, Wor-Tv [A Spokesman for the Amer Cigarette Industry Said It Would Go to Court If Necessary to Block A New Government Requirement That Cigarette Packages and Commercials Carry Warnings That Smoking Can Kill You]
- HT0033020-3020 Tobacco Industry to Go to Court to Fight F.T.C. Action. The Eleventh Hour News with Frank Mcgee, Wnbc-Tv [Presents Comment by Allen Concerning Other Industries Being Required to Issue Warnings]
- HT0033021-3021 Witnesses Attack Cigarette Labeling Regulation. Cbs News, Wcbs [Witnesses Think It Is Unreasonable, Unwarranted, Unnecessary, Unlawful, Illogical, and Arbitrary to Require That All Commodities That Might Have Some Dangerous Implications Through Certain Types of Uses Be Forced to Carry the Label That Has Been Suggested]
- HT0033022-3022 Dangers of Smoking. News at Seven, Kevin Kennedy, Wpix-Tv [Presents Comments Attacking the Ftcs Order; Made Before the House Commerce Comm]
- HT0033023-3023 Tobacco, Smoke & Ire. Time [Ftc Chief Presents Congressmen with Copies of Order to Manufacturers of Cigarettes to Place Poisonlike Warning Labels on Their Products]
- HT0033023-3023_D1 the Ftc Label on the Pack? Newsweek [Exact Wording Is Up to the Companies, But to Be Approved Would Have to Be Close to the Ftc Statement That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Health and May Cause Death From Cancer and Other Diseases]
- HT0033023-3023_D2 [Dup 300160535a-0535a]
- HT0033023-3023_D3 the Ftc, Label on the Pack . Newsweek [Dup 300160535b-0535b]
- HT0033024-3024 Witnesses Recall Seen in Smoke Probe. Richmond Times Dispatch June 30, 1964 [10 Bills Considered, Doubting Physicians, Evidence Called Shaky, Chairman Absent]
- HT0033025-3025 Raps Report on Smoking As Dubious, Weak. Tribune [Since the Statistical Data Was Questionable Donnahue Said the Conclusions of the Surgeon Generals Advisory Comm Also Are of Doubtful Validity]
- HT0033026-3026 Slams Report on Cig Cancer As Haphazard. Daily News [Donnahue States That What We Are Dealing with Is Not So Much Scientific Method As It Is Scientific Guesswork]
- HT0033026-3026_D1 Evidence Declared Lacking. Greensboro Daily News [Three Members of the Medical Profession Say They Find No Evidence That Clearly Connects Smoking of Cigarettes and Lung Cancer and Heart Disease.]
- HT0033027-3027 An Expert Says Cigarets Are Safe. Herald Examiner [Burford Thinks There Is As Much or More Reason to Suspect Air Pollutants As There Is to Suspect Cigarette Smoking of Being Causally Related to Lung Cancer]
- HT0033027-3027_D1 Report Is Disputed. Ny Times [Three Witnesses Disputed the Health Service Report Which the Ftc Used As A Basis for Issuing A Rule Last Week Requiring Cigarette Labels and Advertising Next Year to Warn Customers That Smoking Is A Dangerous Health Hazard.]
- HT0033028-3028 Cigarettes? Certainly Not Car Engines Cause Cancer Professor. Citizen News [Increasing Evidence Tends to Link Lung Cancer More with Fumes From Engines of Automobiles Than with Smoking According to Burford.]
- HT0033028-3028_D1 Lung Doctor Says Cigs Are Not to Blame. Daily News [Explanation of Theory That Disassociates the Connection Between Smoking and Cancer]
- HT0033029-3029 Doctors Attack Report on Smoking. Courier Journal [Attack Stresses That the Report Was Based on Statistical Rather Than Scientific Evidence and the Conclusions Bear No Relationship to the Statistical Data in the Body of the Report.]
- HT0033030-3030 Cigarette Cancer Link Held Dubious. Plain Dealer [Testimony of Three Witnesses Disputes the Surgeon Generals Advisory Comm Report Used As A Basis for the Ftc Ruling Requiring Cigarette Labels and Advertising to Warn Customers That Smoking Is A Dangerous Health Hazard.]
- HT0033030-3030_D1 Lung Surgeon Doubts Cancer, Smoking Link. La Times [A St. Louis Surgeon Testified That He Does Not Believe That Lung Cancer Is Caused by Cigarette Smoking.]
- HT0033031-3031 C-E-I-R Tobacco Study Filed. Wa Post [Study Statistics Cover Income, Sales, Employment, and Population Group Data]
- HT0033031-3031_D1 Cite Tobaccos Economic Role. Journal American [Survey Made at the Request of Lor Filed with the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Comm]
- HT0033032-3032 Skull and Crossbones on Whiskey. Post & Times Star [Since A Case Can Be Made That Overuse of Ardent Spirits Can Harm the Giblets, Why Not Paste A Skull and Crossbones on Every Jug of Whiskey. If the State Is Obliged to Protect Users From Killing Themselves with Cigarettes Why Is It Not Equally Duty Bound to Take the Same Step with Respect to Alcohol Asks the Author.]
- HT0033033-3033 Attention Ftc Hot Dogs Can Cause Heartburn. Journal American [Authors Opinion That Ftc Ruling on Warning Is Ridiculous]
- HT0033034-3034 Advertising News; Cigaret Market Faces Problem. Sun Times [at This Point, Cigaret Companies and Their Ad Ags Seem to Believe That the Regulations Will Not Go Into Effect As Scheduled.]
- HT0033035-3035 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.]
- HT0033036-3036 Too Many Votes Involved; No War on Health Hazards. State Journal [Legislation to Curb Cigarette Smoking Is Too Hot A Political Issue for the Johnson Administration to Handle Before the Election.]
- HT0033037-3037 Ad Nauseum. Herald Tribune [Authors Opinion That Ftc Should Not Reform the Personal Habits of the Public Regarding Manditory Ruling on Labeling of Cigarette]
- HT0033038-3038 Ftc Impudence. Daily News [Argument Against Labeling Stating That It Proposes to Force Cigarette Makers to Denounce Their Own Product]
- HT0033039-3039 Cigaret Edict. Herald Examiner [Article States That the Ftc Ruling Regarding Cigaret Package Labeling and Advertising Is Based on Two Repellent Assumptions.]
- HT0033039-3039_D1 Ill Advised Cigarette Edict. Journal [Article States That the Federally Imposed Labeling Order Is An Arbitrary Action Both Discriminatory and Unnecessary.]
- HT0033040-3040 Labeling Cigarets. Times [Author Thinks That Labeling Will Annoy Individuals, But Will Not Stop Them From Smoking.]
- HT0033040-3040_D1 Beyond Its Field. Enterprise & Times [Author Feels the Ftc Ruling Regarding Health Warnings on Cigarette Packs and Advertising Extends Ftc Powers Into An Area Where It Does Not Belong.]
- HT0033040-3040_D2 Labeling All the Dangers. Morning Standard Times [Author Gives Reasons Why Ftc Ruling Regarding Cigarette Package Labeling Is Silly and If Followed to Its Ridiculous Extreme Would Have Marriage Licenses State That the Odds Are Against You.]
- HT0033041-3041 Trade Commissions Oversteps. News [Author Thinks Progress Should Be Made Through Voluntary Action and Public Persuasion Not Bureaucratic Compulsion.]
- HT0033041-3041_D1 How Far Such Tyranny. News [the Attack of Cigaret Manufacturers on Government Intrusion Should Find Support If Only on the Principle of Fairness and Equity in Business.]
- HT0033042-3042 A Poor Ruling. Express [States Belief That Ftc Rule Is Not the Proper Way to Discourage Smoking]
- HT0033043-3043_D1 Capricious Labeling. Robesonian [Ruling Represents Discrimination, in View of the Potential Danger in Other Products That Require No Labeling]
- HT0033044-3044 A Harsh Cigarette Edict. Argus [the Ftc Treated the Tobacco Industry Very Roughly by Ordering Cigarette Labels and Advertising to Inform the Public That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Health and May Cause Death From Cancer and Other Diseases.]
- HT0033044-3044_D1 Staking A Claim to New Empire. Herald [by Acting When It Did the Ftc Got the Jump on the FDA Which Hew Wants to Have Jurisdiction.]
- HT0033045-3045 the Tobacco Label Ruling. News [Points Out That Labeling Should Not Be Restricted to One Product.]
- HT0033046-3046 the Smoker Has Been Warned Already. Tribune [Findings in the Surgeon Generals Report Were Topline News Months Ago, What Does the Ftc Hope to Accomplish with This Weeks Order.]
- HT0033047-3047 Ridiculous Order. Press [the Ftc Rule Requiring Warning Labels on Cigarettes Is Another Dramatic Example of the Lengths to Which Wa Bureaucrats Will Go to Exercise Their Autocratic Controls Over the Lives of Americans.]
- HT0033048-3048 Are Cigarets Quicker Than Liquor. Sun [Why Single Out One Product Over Any Other for Crippling Labels Which Fail to Distinguish Between Moderate and Immoderate Consumption]
- HT0033048-3048_D1 Not the Only Hazard. Beacon Journal [Why Pick on Cigarettes, Smoking Is Only One of A Thousand Hazards to Health and Longevity.]
- HT0033049-3049 Rule Versus Law. Call [States That Promulgation of the Rule to Place A Warning Label on Cigarettes Is Evidence of the Usurpation of Legislative Power by A Government Bureau.]
- HT0033050-3050 the Scapegoat. The Journal of Commerce [Business Is Too Often Made the Scapegoat of Problems That Are Either Social or the Product of Some Government Policy.]
- HT0033051-3051 Cigarette Warning. Record [Expresses Opinion That It Is Unfair, Unhealthy, and Unwise for Fed Govt Agencies Charged with Protecting the Public Not to Regulate Cigarette Labels and Advertising.]
- HT0033052-3052 Harmless Puff. Sentinel [Author Thinks That the Statement Accompanying the Ftcs Rule on Cigarette Labeling and the Statement by the Ftc Chairman Invite Court Appeals From the Cigarette Companies.]
- HT0033052-3052_D1 Todays Editorial Cigarette Danger Label Is Logical Development. Journal [Expresses Opinion That Cigarettes Must Be Labeled, According to the Latest Findings, with Regard to Any Health Hazards Present.]
- HT0033053-3053 Smokers Beware Is Justified. Louisville Times [Expresses Belief That the Ftc Has Done the Right Thing and Should Be Supported.]
- HT0033054-3054 Code for Cigarettes. Ny Times [Expresses the Opinion That the Cigarette Industrys Proposed Voluntary Advertising Code Merely Restricts the Alluring Claims Made by the Cigarette Makers; It It Not Intended to Emphasize the Hazards in Smoking.]
- HT0033054-3054_D1 to Tell the Truth. Post Times Herald [States the Ftc Is Asking the Cigarette Industry to Tell the Truth]
- HT0033055-3055 the Cigarette Ruling. Citizen Advertiser [Contains Description of the Announcement of the Ftc Ruling Regarding Warning Labeling of Advertising and Cigarettes]
- HT0033055-3055_D1 Ftcs Ad Rule. Dayton Daily News [Takes the Position That the Public Must Be Sufficiently Informed That Cigarettes Are More Than Just Refreshing, Mild and Filter Tipped ]
- HT0033058-3058 Cigarette Makers Still Have Time for Refutation. Courier Journal [Labeling Is Not An Immediate Prospect. Whether the Ruling Is Lawful Will Be Contested in the Courts for Years.]
- HT0033058-3058_D1 the Cigarette Ruling. Post Dispatch [the Ftc Has Acted with Exceptional Courage and A High Sense of Public Responsibility.]
- HT0033059-3059 Ama Elects Smoker Too Old to Quit. San Francisco Examiner [Election of the 118th President of Ama]
- HT0033059-3059_D1 Tobaccomen Defended by Ama Man. San Francisco Chronicle [Recently Retired President of the Ama Came to the Defense of the Tobacco Industry in the Cancer Controversy Yesterday.]
- HT0033060-3060 Ama Filters Its Stand on Cigarets and Bias. News Call Bulletin [Final Language on Cigarettes and Bias Adopted by Convention Delegates Was Not That Urged by the Ca Delegates]
- HT0033061-3061 Smoking Brings Health Hazard Ama Declares. La Times [the Ama Admitted Wednesday That Smoking Cigarettes Is A Serious Health Hazard.]
- HT0033062-3062 Ama Again Declares Smoking, Cancer Link; Sees Cigaret Hazard. Wall Street Journal [Group Stops Short of Saying Cigarets Are Cancer Cause; Hazard Will Be Publicized]
- HT0033063-3063 Cigarette Order. Morning Sun [the Ftc Announced That It Would Require Cigarette Manufacturers to Print A Health Warning on Their Packaging and in Their Advertising.]
- HT0033063-3063_D1 Inaction on Cigarettes. Ny Times [Effective Action Has Been Stalled Because the Administration and Congress Have Failed to Press for Reasonable Curbs.]
- HT0033064-3064 San Francisco. Eagle [Labeling Cigarettes Is Not the Answer, Education Is]
- HT0033064-3064_D1 Cigaret War Still on. Times Republican [at the Ama Convention This Week, 12 of the 72 Resolutions Submitted on the First Day Related to Smoking and Health.]
- HT0033064-3064_D2 Realistic Ama. Tribune [Trustees of the Ama Explained That They Were Convinced People Will Go on Smoking and That the Only Hope of Minimizing the Dangers Lay in More Research.]
- HT0033065-3065_D1 Smoking, Heart Disease Link Disputed by Study. Evening Star [Survey Concluded That Stress Is Closely Linked to Heart Disease and Smoking May Not Be]
- HT0033066-3066 Md Says Smoking May Not Hurt Heart. Ny Post [Survey Concluded That Job Stress Is Closly Linked to Heart Disease and Smoking May Not Be]
- HT0033066-3066_D1 Survey Discounts Belief Smoking Damages Heart. Greensboro Record [Stress Linked to Heart Disease; Smoking May Not Be]
- HT0033067-3067 Agent Causing Animal Cancer Discovered in Charcoal Steak. Ny Times [the Substance in Question Is Benzo (A) Pyrene.]
- HT0033068-3068 Harvard Polonium Theory of Lung Cancer Link Questioned by Canadian. Canadian Cancer Society Newsletter, Vol 17 No 1 [Taylor States That A Score of People, Who While Working in the Radium Refining Industry, Absorbed So Much Polonium, That Traces Were Found Years Later in Their Urine and None of the Workers Developed Any Form of Cancer.]
- HT0033068-3068_D1 US Doctor Not Convinced Cigarets Are Major Cause of Lung Cancer. Toronto Daily Star [A Leading US Cancer Researcher Said He Could Not Gather Enough Facts to Say That Cigaret Smoking Is More Important in the Whole Picture Than Anything Else.]
- HT0033069-3069 Lung Cancer Deaths Increase at Zoo; Air Pollution Suspected As Cause. Evening Bulletin [Byproducts Under Suspicion Are Fumes From Motor Exhausts, Rubber Particles , Particles of Asphalt and Tar, and Particles of Asbestos.]
- HT0033070-3070 Half of Kids Smoke by Senior High Year. Post Intelligencer [Many Start Smoking When They Are in the Fourth and Fifth Grades According to Hundley.]
- HT0033071-3071 Statistics Relate Drinking, Cancer. World Telegram and Sun [Statistical Science Added Heavy Drinking to Smoking As Possible Cause of Cancer]
- HT0033072-3072 in Same Room, Non Smokers Affected by Cigarettes Too. Los Angeles Times [Nonsmokers in the Same Room with Smokers Share Some of the Same Blood Vessel Effects From Tobacco Smoke.]
- HT0033073-3073 Years Sooner, Tobacco Allergy Suspect in Stroke. Citizen News [Suggesting That Smokers That Have Allergies Come Down with Heart Attacks Sooner Than Smokers Without Allergies]
- HT0033074-3074 Cigarette Sales Decline Sharply. Ny Times [Volume Off by 800 Million Packs Since Issurance of US Health Report]
- HT0033074-3074_D1 Cigaret Sales Off 16 Billion. Herald Examiner [Cigarette Consumption Down Since Government Report Linked Health Hazards to Smoking]
- HT0033075-3075 Decline in Smoking Eases Off. Pittsburgh Press [Drop Averages 6.5 Percent.]
- HT0033075-3075_D1 Cigaret Sales Show Marked Drop, US Says. Tribune [Consumption of Cigarette Dropped Off by 800 Million]
- HT0033075-3075_D2 Reports Cuts Cigarets by the Billion. Citizens News [Decline of Cigaret Consumption by 16 Billion]
- HT0033075-3075_D3 Cigaret Sales. J of Commerce [Cigaret Consumption Dropped Off by 16 Billion]
- HT0033342-3042 Cigarette Ruling Is Unwise. Free Press [Ftc Should Rescind Its Ruling Because It Shows An Amazing Lack of Faith in the Intelligence of the Amer Consumer and A Disturbing Contempt for Amer Law and Custom.]
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TINlES LEADER
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania
June 25, 1964
F. T. C. Cgaret ~ a: ":in ;
Opens Way To AbusLs
The validity of the riilmc oi the
Federal Trade Cu.umission Ihai all ci ;-
arct labels and advcrtisin; :ontain a
warning smokiu; may cauc dralh from
cancer and other diseasc.r is open to
question and there Is every reason to
be l i e v c it aili he challcnleed in the
courts. ~~toer i& involved here than mccts
the eye at fiist cl:,ncc.
That business must participatc at its
own expense in a 1cdetal campaien to
downgrade its products constilutcs a
newconcept in adeertising. It paves Ihe
way for all s o r t s of regulal ioas and
abuses that could change the Amcriean
way of life. This Is not a matter Ihat
concerns just ci,:trets, but all pnxiucts.
For almost arkything might be inriudcd.
Food would he a natural tat;et be-
cause, by ihe rca;oning of l1,o Federal
Trade Commission, it m ig h t be con-
stntcd as being dctrimcntal to health
and to life itself. Candy, Cdkcs, bread,
canned fruits, etc., could lead lediabe-
tes. Atcats might affect certain Indi-
viduals adver5eiy, just as excessive use
of other edibles might lead to serious
complications to the stomach, heart or
other organs. The list Is endlcca Chaos
would prevail as the Commission took
ever the responsibilities or the medical
profession.
Since aulomobiles, plxnrs, railroad
trains, buges, and tivckskill thousands
, and Injure m i I 1 i o n s annually, firms
would have to Include in every appeal
lor patronage a notice that a journey
eould wind up in the morgue or hospital.
This may sound silly, but it is real under
the cigaret tvling.
The F.T.G is taking a lot of liberty
with Pts newest decree. It has gone too
far and It must be curbed or life will
become Intolerable in America.
R0m50NIAN
Lumberton, North Carolina
June 25, 1964
CAPRIGIOUS LABELING
"Cigarette smoking Is dangerous to health" - or
other words to that effect - would be put on all ci
gsrette containers and packages next year under a
Fedet'91 Trade Commission ruling.
That represents gross discrimination, in view of
the potential danger in other products for which no
sueh label is required. Alcoholic beverages are the
prime example. Automobiles are a less closely relat-
ed example, yet in the 1900's this nation has lost more
lives on the streets and highways than on battlefields.
The new ruling, as North Carolinians in Congress
were quick to point out, represents "an arrogant dis-
play of administrative power that completely Ignores
the legi0ative process," and might be set aside by the
federal courts, the Congress, or the executive branch of
government. Chairman Paul Rand Dixon of the >!"PC
apparent:y wanted to take a slap at cigarettes what-
twea' the consequences. Even Surg,:ow General Luther
Tedry questioned FTC authority to issue such an or-
der.
aven crediting Dixon with doing what he thought
was right, the order was unnecessary. For if there is
any product the public has been Informed about ?- rP-
cent years, it is cigarettes. Few literate adults could
haYe escaped awareness of a controversy about ci-
grtrettea and health.
In the case of alcoholic beverages and automobilEs,
it can be asauaned that virtually everybody knows it
ia possible to drink too much or drive too carelessly.
Persons below a legally-specified age are not allowed
to buy liquor or drive a car. Also, there is a mini-
mum age limit for purchasing cigarettes. Such a 13nd-
tatioa reflects not only the legal opin`on but also
the poi,ular and general opinion that cigarettes are
not entirely harmless to everybody. It is doubltful that
the oldest person living can recall any time when
smoking ever was regarded as entirely harmless to
everybody of any age.
Smoking has been attacked as Injurious to health
or otherwise undesirable since it first was introduced
to civilization. This is the age of hydrogen bombs and
space flights, and scientists have been conducting re-
eearch on cigarettes and amokirtg for years, yet the
dsnger in smoking still Is a controversial subject. No
sBcent break-ehrough In the realm of knowledge of
thie iwb ject has occurred, to justify, the sudden adoption
of tt "dimger" label.
The ruling seems arbitrary and capricious. It
tnay be kicked out. If it is allowed to remain, +he toa
bacco Industry would have grounds to ask for label-
iag o1 other products whose dangerous potentialities
have bean more clearly demonstrated.
