Tuesday, September 29, 2015

50 Years ago, the Warning Labels Went on Cigarette Packages

   Fifty years ago, July 1, 1965, cigarette companies were forced to place labels on their cigarette packages, warning that the surgeon general had determined that cigarette smoking was dangerous to your health.
   Forty-two percent of America's adults smoked at that time. For whatever reason, what a dramatic decline there has been. By 2012, only 18 percent were smoking.

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