Warnings Or Not

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30478, 27 June 1964, Page 13

Warnings Or Not

(N.Z, Press Association—Copyright)

WASHINGTON, June 26. The American cigarette industry declared today it would go to court “if necessary” to block a new Government requirement that cigarette packages and advertisements carry warnings that smoking can be fatal. An Ottawa cablegram states that Canada is waiting for a report from an advisory committee on smoking before it decides whether to follow the United States and order cigarette makers tb label their products as a hazard to health. Meanwhile in London the British PostmasterGeneral has again refused to do anything about ban-

ning cigarette advertising on television. In a letter to the Advertising Inquiry Council, a non-political consumer group, he rejected their comment that measures the British Independent Television Authority had taken to control cigarette advertising, had proved inadequate.

And from Sydney it is reported that the Australian National Tuberculosis and Chest Association wants all cigarette packets sold in Australia to carry cancer warnings. Air-Vice Marshal D. A. Creal, the association’s executive secretary, urged this yesterday.