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50th anniversary: U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act...

History · Anniversaries · Wed, April 1, 2020

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1970: U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages.

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