FEDERAL CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING ACT (PUBLIC LAW 89-92, APPROVED JULY 27, 1965) AN ACT To regulate the labeling of cigarettes, and for other purposes note Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa 15 U.S.C. 1331 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. It is the policy of the Congress, and the purpose 15 U.S.c. 1381 of this Act, to establish a comprehensive Federal program to deal with cigarette labeling and advertising with respect to any relationship between smoking and health, whereby (1) the public may be adequately informed that cigarette smoking may be hazardous to health by inclusion of a warning to that effect on each package of cigarettes; and (2) commerce and the national economy may be (A) protected to the maximum extent consistent with this declared policy and (B) not impeded by diverse, nonuniform, and confusing cigarette labeling and advertising regulations with respect to any relationship between smoking and health. DEFINITIONS SEC. 3. As used in this Act (1) The term "cigarette" means (A) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any substance not containing tobacco, and (B) any roll of tobacco wrapped in any substance containing tobacco which, because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette described in subparagraph (A). (2) The term "commerce" means (A) commerce between any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin 15 U.S.C. 1832 |