A Brief History of Tobacco in Our Culture

• 1994 - Congressional hearings begin; Times refuses tobacco advertising, McDonald’s bans smoking in 11,000 restaurants

• 1995 - FDA declares nicotine a drug; under-age smoking on the rise; Marlboro Man dies of lung cancer at age 73

• 1998 - California is 1st state to ban smoking in bars; Big Tobacco settles with the Attorney Generals of 46 states and 5 territories

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Seven Tobacco Company executives begin testimony in Congressional hearings; say smoking and nicotine is not addictive because it does not cause intoxication

1994 Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General

1994-05-31: the FTC votes 3-2 not to file a complaint that the R.J. Reynolds "Joe Camel" advertising campaign encourages children to buy cigarettes. Two commissioners issued strongly dissenting opinions. The FTC's province was to determine not if the ads encouraged kids to smoke, but whether the ads encouraged kids to do something illegal--_buy_ cigarettes. 3 years later Joe Camel is pulled.

1995-07-21 Two reports find alarming increases in cigarette smoking among minors in the US:
• Trends in Smoking Initiation Among Adolescents and Young Adults -- United States, 1980-1989 (CDC)
• The Monitoring the Future Study (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. This study covers the years 1991-1994)