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TIMELINE OF UNITED STATES
ATTEMPTS & ACTIONS
Comparison of USA versus other countries' ability to reduce and unnerve children to never start smoking due to pictures and
graphic images and blackened cigarette packaging.
TIMELINE: "A History of Warning Labels and Packaging Policies" - Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
1964
FEDERAL CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING ACT - "The Great Society" Congress | Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
(1964)
"History of the Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health" - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
"Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act" - Federal Trade Commission
1965
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| Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act July 27 1965 |
2000
Canada became the first country to place graphic warnings on cigarette packaging.
2001
2009
"The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act required the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue
a rule requiring graphic warning labels depicting the health consequences of smoking for prominent placement on cigarette
packages and advertising."
2011
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"United States Attitudes About Banning Menthol in Cigarettes: Results From a Nationally Representative Survey" - American
Journal of Public Health (AJPH) (2011)
2012
United States to add graphic depictions of medical symptoms and consequences due to smoking onto cigarette packaging.
2016
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| 2012 CHANGE TO CIGARETTE PLAIN PACKAGING PACKS IN AUSTRALIA - David Hammond |
THE UNITED STATES FALLS BELOW THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF SOME OF TOBACCO CONTROL LABELING & PACKAGING POLICIES
"This week, the World Health Organization called on countries everywhere to step up the war on tobacco advertising and promotion
by introducing plain, or standardized, packaging of tobacco products.
'Plain packaging reduces the attractiveness of tobacco products,' said WHO Director-General Margaret Chan. 'It kills the glamour,
which is appropriate for a product that kills people.'
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death globally, killing about 6 million people every year. Tobacco marketing is
considered a massive driver of cigarette use — which is why the industry shells out tens of billions every year pushing
its products to consumers. Cigarette companies also mislead consumers about the relative harms of certain types of cigarettes
through the use of colors (light colors appear to imply a product is safer) and language (think "light," "organic," or "low
tar").
To counteract those marketing efforts, governments started requiring gruesome pictures of the health effects of cigarettes
on packs in 2000. (These have more of an impact than text-only warnings.) ....
There's also strong evidence from Australia, now four years into its plain packaging effort, that the measure has had an impact
on smoking habits. The government commissioned a review of the impact of the packaging changes and found that smoking rates
fell an additional 0.55 percentage points between December 2012 and September 2015 — a drop that it attributed to the
packaging changes only." ....
'The expectation is that the benefit will accrue and grow over time as children grow up without the positive brand imagery
on packages,' Hammond said. ....
'The findings [on the benefits of plain packaging] are also consistent with idea that packaging is an important vehicle for
marketing, as is clear from the tobacco industry’s own internal documents.' - Crawford Moodie, University of Stirling
tobacco packaging researcher. Indeed, tobacco industry communications were made public through legislation and shed light
on how the industry hooks consumers."
2019
"Tobacco Products; Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements" - Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration (2019)
"Stark warnings that smoking can cause everything from blindness and bladder cancer to strokes and stunted fetal growth.
"While most people assume the public knows all they need to understand about the harms of cigarette smoking, there's a surprising
number of lesser-known risks that both youth and adult smokers and non-smokers may simply not be aware of," said Acting FDA
Commissioner Ned Sharples in a statement.
Tobacco companies contended, "Freedom of Speech." Still no packaging changes since 1984. Smoking reduction world wide due
to new packaging since 2000 - except in United States.
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| PICTURE PACKAGING FOR USA FDA PROPOSAL 2019 |
"Nearly 120 countries around the world have adopted the larger, graphic warning labels. Studies from those countries
suggest the image-based labels publicize smoking risks and encourage smokers to quit.
Current U.S. cigarette labels don't reflect the enormous toll of smoking, said Geoff Fong, who heads the International Tobacco
Control Project. 'This is a deadly product,' said Fong, who studies anti-tobacco policies at Canada’s University
of Waterloo. “We have more prominent warnings on many other products that don’t pose even a fraction of the
risk that cigarettes do.”
Canada became the first country to put graphic warnings on cigarettes in 2000.
Smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, even though smoking rates have been declining
for decades. Approximately 14% of U.S. adults smoke, according to government figures. That’s down from the more
than 40% of adults who smoked in the mid-60s.
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Flavored tobacco, including menthol, can only be purchased and consumed at smoke bars in the State of Massachusetts.
2020
"FDA Requires New Health Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements: New Warnings With Color Images Promote Greater
Public Understanding of Negative Health Consequences of Smoking" - Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA Final Regulation: "Tobacco Products; Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements" [Pictures]
"Cigarette Health Warning Design Files and Technical Specifications" - Food and Drug Administration
"The Tobacco Control Act amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89-92) to require
each cigarette package and advertisement to bear one of the new required warnings. The final rule specifies the 11 new textual
warning label statements and accompanying color graphics."
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Approved by the Governor Newsom: SB-793 Flavored tobacco products.(2019-2020) - California Senate Statute
"Goodbye 'Banana Smash' Cigarillos: Governor Quickly Signs Bill to Ban Flavored Tobacco" - California Matters (2020)
2021
"Adding warning labels like these with graphic depictions of the negative health consequences of cigarette smoking could have
averted thousands of smoking-related deaths if approved as originally planned in 2012, according to a new analysis by University
of Michigan researchers and colleagues from the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling network (CISNET) Lung Group.
If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does require tobacco companies to include the graphic warning labels on cigarette
packages in October 2022, as it’s expected to do, between 275,000 and 794,000 smoking-attributable deaths could be averted
by 2100, and between 4 million to 11.6 million life-years could be gained during that period."
"Cigarette Labeling and Health Warning Requirements" - U.S. Food & Drug Administration (2021)
2022
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. et al. v. United States Food and Drug Administration:
Court decision in Texas is that images made for placing on cigarette packaging specifically made for emotional responses are
considered against, "Freedom of Speech."
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On November 8, 2022, California voters upheld the state law, SB 793, prohibiting a tobacco retailer, or any of the tobacco
retailer’s agents or employees, from selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell or offer
for sale, most flavored tobacco products including flavored e-cigarettes and menthol cigarettes, as well as tobacco product
flavor enhancers in retail locations.
Proposition 31: "Referendum on 2020 Law That Would Prohibit the Retail Sale of Certain Flavored Tobacco Products." - Legislative
Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor
"California Proposition 31, Flavored Tobacco Products Ban Referendum (2022)
"California Proposition 31 Election Results: Flavored Tobacco Ban Referendum" - The New York Times (November/December 2022)
2023
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"California Law Updates Enforcement of the Flavored Tobacco Products: Law from Retail Locations Health and Safety Code Section
104559.5" (2023)
"White House Delays Menthol Cigarette Ban, Alarming Anti-Smoking Advocates" - Associated Press (December 6, 2023)
2024
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"Effective January 1, 2024, Assembly Bill (AB) 935 (Chapter 135, Statutes of 2023) strengthens the California flavored
tobacco products retail law, Senate Bill (SB) 793​, by establishing the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
as the primary state enforcement agency, increases penalties for retailers who do not comply with the law, and changes the
definition of a retail location. "
"California Prohibits Retailers from Selling Flavored Tobacco Products" - California Tobacco Control Branch, California Department
of Public Health (2024)
Approved by the Governor Newsom: SB-793 Flavored tobacco products.(2019-2020) - California Senate Statute
On October 7, 2023, Governor Newsom signed into law AB 935, strengthening the enforcement of the flavored tobacco retail law
and broadening the definition of a retail location.
BLM... March to Ban....
"With a Federal Menthol Ban Looming, Tobacco Companies Push 'Non-Menthol' Substitutes" - National Public Radio (March 21,
2024)
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