If the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee has its way, the following unequivocal label will appear on cigarette packs and in all advertising for cigarettes starting next year: WARNING! CIGARETTE SMOKING CAUSES CANCER, EMPHYSEMA, HEART DISEASE; MAY COMPLICATE PREGNANCY; AND IS ADDICTIVE. The Senate effort, headed by Democrat Thomas Eagleton, who smokes a pack a day of Pall Malls, is the latest and strongest warning about cigarettes.
In 1957, after the first Government caveat concerning smoking, Utah Senator Wallace Bennett introduced a bill to require the admonition: WARNING: PROLONGED USE OF THIS PRODUCT MAY RESULT IN CANCER, IN LUNG, HEART AND...
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