Tobacco safety movement affected the whole world. The movement started in 1964 tobacco can cause people to get cancer. People never knew that they can die from tobacco. There is now warning labels on cigarettes there are laws and one of the laws is you have to show your ID.
One of the people that was in the Tobacco safety movement is Jeffrey Wigand he was born on December 17, 1942 in New York City he was a whistle blower also. Jeffrey Wigand became famous in the 1990s when he took public his knowledge that cigarette companies had tried to conceal the dangers of smoking. Then in 1961, after just one year of college, Wigand dropped out of college and joined the United States Air Force.
The first report on smoking and health was in 1964 the report shows a link between cigarette smoking and cancer. The report was called Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General. The 1964 report on smoking and health had an impact on public attitudes and policy. A Gallup Survey conducted in 1958 found that only 44 percent of Americans believed smoking caused cancer, while 78 percent believed so by 1968.
In June 1961, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the National Tuberculosis Association, and the American Public Health Association addressed a letter to President John F. Kennedy, in which they called for a national commission on smoking, dedicated to “seeking a solution to this health problem that would interfere least with the freedom of industry or the happiness of individuals.” The Kennedy administration responded the following year, after prompting from a widely circulated critical study on cigarette smoking by the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Meeting at the National Library of Medicine on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from November 1962 through January 1964, the committee reviewed more than 7,000 scientific articles with the help of over 150 consultants. Terry issued the commission’s report on January 11, 1964, choosing a Saturday to minimize the effect on the stock market and to maximize coverage in the Sunday papers. As Terry remembered the event, two decades later, the report “hit the country like a bombshell. It was front page news and a lead story on every radio and television station in the United States and many abroad.”In 1965, Congress required all cigarette packages distributed in the United States to carry a health warning, and since 1970 this warning is made in the name of the Surgeon General. In 1969, cigarette advertising on television and radio was banned, effective September 1970.
As a kid I breath in much more cleaner air I live in a less smoky environment. Now people know what is going to happen to them when they smoke.