The effects of government regulation on teenage smoking
Abstract
Since the issuance of the first Surgeon General's Report and Health in 1964, the federal government has been involved in a sporadic campaign to discourage cigarette smoking. This campaign has consisted primarily of policies designed to increase public knowledge of the harmful effects of cigarette smoking and to restrict advertising by cigarette manufacturers. The major elements of this campaign have been the Fairness Doctrine of the Federal Communications Commission, which resulted in the airing of antismoking messages on radio and television from July 1, 1967, to January 1, 1971, and the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970, which banned prosmoking cigarette advertising on radio and television after January 1, 1971.
