In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancers
The committee in its report titled Smoking and Health, clearly indicted cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer and bronchitis and that it probably contributed to cardiovascular disease as well. The report led to a ban on cigarette advertising on television in 1965 and six years later, in 1971, the first warning labels on cigarette packs appeared, with WARNING by H.M
Under pressure from the Senate, and out of fear that if federal regulatory agencies stepped in to do something about cigarette advertising on the air a great deal of advertising for other products might suffer the same fate, the broadcasters gave in
However, when you get a new product out, people think [it's] less harmful and not much is known about [e-cigs], and theres a lot of confusion, says TJ Harrington of the Tobacco Prevention Center of Florida