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1971 newspaper CIGARETTE ADS are TOTALLY BANNED from TELEVISION - inv # 8E-412 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction
SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the York Dispatch (PA) dated Jan 2, 1971. This original newspaper contains a front page heading and news that the US Federal Government has totally BANNED CIGARETTE ADS from TELEVISION.
On April 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned cigarette ads from airing on television and radio.
After World War II, cigarette companies began advertising heavily on TV. Camel cigarettes sponsored the nation’s first regular television news program, “Camel News Caravan.” It featured an ashtray on the desk in front of the newscaster, John Cameron Swayze, and the Camel logo behind him. The 15-minute news show ran from 1949 to 1956.
In response, beginning in 1967, the Federal Communications Commission utilized a provision of its “fairness doctrine” that required all TV stations to broadcast one anti-smoking public service announcement — at no cost to the organizations providing them — for every three cigarette ads they aired. These anti-smoking announcements soon proved effective, as the number of U.S. smokers began to decline sharply. The courts upheld the commission’s action against a First Amendment challenge by Big Tobacco.
In 1969, bills began to circulate on Capitol Hill banning all cigarette advertising on TV and radio. In that year, tobacco firms were the single-largest product advertisers on television. Initially, the tobacco lobby, buoyed by legislators from tobacco-growing areas, succeeded in blocking congressional action.
However, Big Tobacco came to recognize that an on-air ban would free funds for advertising in alternate media. It would also do away with the anti-smoking public-service ads. Sensing that the tide of public opinion had turned against it, the tobacco lobby yielded. Under pressure from public health advocates, Nixon, an eight-bowl-a-day pipe smoker, reluctantly went along.
The ban took effect at midnight on Jan. 2, 1971. That gave cigarette companies a final chance to advertise on TV during the New Year’s Day college bowl games. The last televised cigarette ad ran at 11:50 p.m. during “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”
After the imposition of the television ban, cigarette advertising continued to appear in magazines, newspapers and on billboards. However, in 1999 many cigarette billboard advertisements were replaced with anti-smoking messages; some featured parodies of cigarette companies’ slogans.
Since 1984, cigarette companies have also been compelled to place U.S. surgeon's general’s warnings on all cigarette packs and advertisements under the provisions of the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act.
The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement reached in 1997 bans outdoor, billboard and public transportation advertising of cigarettes in 46 states. Restrictions on cigarette were further tightened in 2010 with passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The act prohibits tobacco companies from sponsoring sports, music and other cultural events and bars the display of their logos or products on T-shirts, hats, or other apparel.
Even as distribution of tobacco products remains legal, the number of smokers in the United States has declined from 42 percent in 1965 to less than 17 percent today — a trend that surveys show has been driven by both health warnings and high excise taxes.
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