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Show Cigarette Commercials Criticized CHICAGO (AP) Chairman E. William Henry of the Federal Communications Comm i s s i o n yesterday in Chicago assailed radio ra-dio and television cigarette commercials. com-mercials. IN HIS annual assessment of the state of broadcasting before the National Association of Broadcasters, Henry said: "From the cigarette advertising presently present-ly being carried on radio and television stations, no one would every know that a major public controversy is in progress as to the harmful effects of cigarette cigar-ette smoking on the American public." While cigarette packs must by law carry the label "Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous haz-ardous to your health," Henry said, "the sign on broadcasting's broadcast-ing's door for cigarette advertisers adver-tisers reads 'business as usual.' " HENRY called the cigarette controversy a major test of self-regulation self-regulation for the broadcasting industry which, he said, "has long preached the virtues of self-regulation." "The truth is," the FCC chairman chair-man said, "the broadcast industry indus-try has not only failed to pass the test of self-regulation it hasn't even taken it." |
