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__The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act __ **·** The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act was a bill passed by Congress as a response to U.S. Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry's 1964 report that stated that lung cancer and chronic bronchitis was related casually related to smoking. The bill required that all Tobacco product packages stated the health warnings. It also banned the advertisement of Tobacco products on television and radio. **·**   It was signed as a law by Richard Nixon on April 1, 1970 **·** The law was slightly unsuccessful because studies found that the warnings had little effects on American smoking habits, so in 1981 another law was passed that required more specific health warnings.