...presented the committee's findings to the American people: Cigarette smoking caused cancer and was "a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action."4 The only "remedial action" Congress took right away was to pass a law in 1965 that cigarette...

...conclusions were included in the 1 964 Surgeon General's report which stated that 'cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action? Smoking in adults, measured as an average number of cigarettes smoked per year, began to decrease steadily...

...States, was the 1964 Surgeon General's Report. The message it delivered was clear: '[Qigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action. As the warnings against smoking increased in number and intensity, so too did the efforts of the tobacco...

...nonsmoking men. At the conclusion of the report, the following statement was made: "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." Since the submission of this report, yearly per capita consumption of cigarettes has declined in the...

...mortality rate, although less than that of males. The Advisory Committee concluded that "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." "Remedial action" was initiated immediately after publication of the Advisory Committee's Report, when...

...women, and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis. The committee stated that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." In 1965, Congress passed legislation setting up the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health....

...case-control and seven cohort studies had been reported. The Surgeon General concluded that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action."41 Research continues on the health consequences of smoking. A substantial body of experimental...

...United States issued a landmark report on "Smoking and Health," which concluded: "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action.""Cancer by the Carton" is a stunning example of a secret history that broke through the popular...

...report, synthesizing seven thousand articles about smoking and disease, declared, "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." The report was ranked as one of the top news stories of the year.81 The next year, Congress passed...

...enough to unhook them. All of these qualities, Smoking and Health asserted, combined to make cigarettes "a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." But the report did not define "appropriate remedial action," nor did it set a timetable for it or even...