Cigarette Ads On TV Banned In 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General
released its landmark findings on smoking and health in a report
that inexorably linked smoking tobacco and poor health. The
conditions identified included various cancers, heart disease,
emphysema and other breathing disorders. The report also armed
the U.S. government with added fuel as it began to regulate the
advertising and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Other nations were already moving to ban certain kinds of
cigarette advertising. Great Britain banned all TV cigarette ads
in 1965 and, on this date in 1969, Canada prohibited all
cigarette ads on radio and television. The United States banned
such ads on television in 1971, five years after printed health
warnings began to appear on cigarette packages sold in this
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