For the OLD Furts....remember?

• 1912 --The Marine Hospital Service is reorganized as the U.S. Public Health Service

• 1913 --R. J. Reynolds launches Camel, the first modern mass-produced cigarette made from blended tobacco

• 1917 --Cigarettes are included in the field rations of American soldiers in World War I

• 1928 --Herbert L. Lombard and Carl R. Doering offer the first detailed statistical data showing a higher proportion of heavy smokers among lung cancer patients than among controls

• 1929 --U.S. Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming (1920-1936) cautions that smoking causes nervousness and insomnia, particularly among women

• 1938 --Raymond Pearl demonstrates statistically that smoking shortens life expectancy

• 1941-45 --Tobacco is supplied to American servicemen in World War II

• 1942 --In-vitro experiments establish that tars, solid particles of partially burnt tobacco, can act directly on cells to produce neoplasm, or new and abnormal growth

• 1953 --Ernest Wynder, a researcher at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, paints smoke condensate on the skin of mice, producing cancerous tumors in 44 percent of the animals

• 1957 --Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney (1956-1961) declares it to be the official position of the U.S. Public Health Service that a causal relationship exists between smoking and lung cancer (June 12)

• 1964 --Surgeon General Luther L. Terry (1961-1965) issues Smoking and Health, the first Surgeon General's report to receive widespread media and public attention (January 11)

• 1965 --Congress mandates health warnings on cigarette packs

• 1957 --Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney (1956-1961) declares it to be the official position of the U.S. Public Health Service that a causal relationship exists between smoking and lung cancer (June 12)

• 1969 --The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act passes Congress. It imposes a ban on cigarette advertising on television and radio after September 30, 1970, and requires that the Surgeon General produce an annual report on the latest scientific findings on the health effects of smoking

• 1973 --Arizona passes the first state law designating separate smoking areas in public place

• 1983 --Lung cancer surpasses breast cancer as the leading cause of death from cancer in women

• 1987 --Congress bans smoking on all domestic flights of two hours or less; two years later smoking is banned on all domestic flights

• 1992 --The Environmental Protection Agency places passive smoke on its list of major carcinogens, making it subject to federal workplace and other regulations

• 2000 --California becomes the first state to ban smoking in bars and restaurants

fubar57 said:

Finding a prize under a pop (soda for those south of the 49th) bottle cap. Had to be in the late 60's, opened a bottle of Orange Crush, removed the liner in the cap and saw $5 printed on the cap (about 1 million dollars to a pre-teen). The owner of the mom and pop store said they couldn't give me the money, that I had to find the pop truck and the driver would pay out. I chased that bloody truck around for half a day, always one stop behind him before I finally got my loot.

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