Cigarette commercials outlawed
WASHINGTON (UPI)—House and Senate conferees agreed Tuesday on a bill that would outlaw cigarette commercials on radio and television, effective Jan. 1.
The measure also would impose a stronger health warning statement on cigarette packages.
The bill would ban regulation of cigarette advertising by state governments, but would free the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from the prohibition against federal regulation of cigarette advertising which has been in effect since 1965.
Under the measure, the FTC would be free effective July 1, 1971, to impose a health warning in printed cigarette advertisements.
"We are past the beginning of the end of cigarette smoking—the personal environmental pollution of the 20th century." Magnuson said.
Sens, Warren G. Magnuson, D-Wash, and Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, who led the Senate anti-smoking drive, hailed the conference committee action. The bill the conferees agreed on still must be approved by the House and Senate, but conference agreements are rarely rejected.
The FTC says the cigarette industry spends about $240 million a year on TV and radio advertising, more than $200 million of it on television. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has estimated that the television industry gets 10 per cent of its revenue from cigarette firms.
Groups bring suit on Chicago Seven
CHICAGO (UPI) — A spokesman for three University of Illinois student associations said today the federal court may be asked to overrule the school's decision to bar a speech by "Chicago Seven" attorney William M. Kunstler.
Violence broke out on the university's Champaign campus Tuesday night following a decision by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to prohibit the use of school facilities tonight for a speech by Kunstler.
A spokesman for "Concerned Law Students," the organization which invited Kunstler to campus, said the group was considering a suit which would ask the U.S. District Court in Chicago to permit the appearances.
Lawrence O'Brien changes his mind
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Lawrence F. O'Brien, reversing an earlier decision, said Tuesday he was willing to return to his old job as National Democratic Chairman if party leaders draft him at a meeting here Thursday.
O'Brien declined the post last week on grounds he lacked the broad party support he needed, but Tuesday he said in a one-sentence statement: "If the Democratic National Committee ratifies the recommendation of its executive committee to draft me as chairman, I must accept that decision and I will serve my party.
Candidate named
A candidate for Student Senator from Pearson College is Patrick Williams (Alliance) Wichita sophomore rather than Lansing senior as was incorrectly reported in Tuesday's Kansan.
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