1964 CE
The report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General is released.

The report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General is released at a highly anticipated press conference. It is the first comprehensive governmental report on smoking and health. The report concludes that smoking is a cause of several diseases, including lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, and chronic bronchitis. Smoking is also deemed to be “a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action.”

Source: Goodman, Jordan. Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005).