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The sale of tobacco did not have any restrictions. cigarettes cost for about 30 cents. In the 1950s, it was possible to buy a pack of cigarettes at a drugstore, gas station, a restaurant, etc. if it was easy to buy cigarettes, it was even easier to find places to smoke them. In fact, smoking was permitted almost everywhere, from hospitals to airplanes and restaurants.
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Not too much, though some information was out there. in the 1950s, several medical studies linked smoking to lung cancer and heart disease. Tobacco companies agrgressively denied these reports.
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in 1998, as part of the settlement of a big lawsuit, tobacco companies agreed to spend billions of dollars that encourage smokers to quit and discourage kids and teens from starting.
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20.6 percent of American adults do smoke. Most want to quit, but the addictive nature of nicotine makes quitting dificult.
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in 2009, the government banned ads that falsely sggest that some cigarettes are less harmful than other. that ban was a result of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This law further regulates the way tobacco products are advertised and sold.
