Show Smoking and Legislation AN AMERICAN WATCHING debate and decisions in halls of Federal Government has reason for being ON THE ONE HE HEARS testimony from an official agency of the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health that cigarette smoking is a He reads in the government's official report well-founded conclusions that cigarette smoking not only causes lung cancer and chronic but also is associated with heart and other cardiovascular THIS EVIDENCE IS NOT Such agencies as the American Cancer American Heart and have been saying substantially the same thing for But the report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee does state officially the finding of a formal government Cigarette smoking BUT EVEN AS CIGARETTE smoking was killing Uie House of Representatives last month voted to renew subsidies on the growing of WHILE OTHER COUNTRIES are considering measures to outlaw cigarette and taking other measures to protect the health of their the U. S. subsidizes the killer CAN ANYONE WONDER THAT Americans are Is it any surprise that young people arc saying that cigarette smoking can't really be so bad if the government follows this ASIDE FROM AN END TO tobacco the nation needs a dramatic and unmistakable policy decision by its government to leave no doubt about the Such a decision would be a rule to require a health on all cigarette packages and as the Federal Trade Commission has already after exhaustive hearings in which all interested parties THE SENATE COMMERCE Committee has just completed hearings on this and many nationwide organizations have asked for this joins them in believing that the health of Americans demands nothing less than such a warning of the hazards in cigarette and hopes the government will show the courage to |