"The National Battle to Curb Smoking Still Smolders"

"In addition to listing all the dangers and diseases associated with smoking, Terry also took the extraordinary step of calling for government involvement in the issue.  Across the decades, the national effort to separate Americans from their cigarettes has manifested itself in the creation of warning labels on packs of cigarettes (1965), the launching of free anti-smoking PSAs on television (1967), the creation of smoking sections in restaurants, airplanes, and elsewhere in the 1970s, and the banning of cigarette advertisements.  Eventually, full smoking bans took root as well."


Adam Chandler at The Atlantic notes the fiftieth anniversary of the Surgeon General "report that linked smoking cigarettes with lung cancer."