Smoking: Facts You Should Know
The Unfiltered Truth About Smoking and Health
Twelve of the 72 resolutions submitted by delegates at the AMA’s Annual Meeting in June 1964 urged the AMA leadership to support the conclusions of the Surgeon General’s Report released earlier that year. Instead, the AMA issued a pamphlet entitled Smoking: Facts You Should Know that stressed the dangers of burns and suffocation from falling asleep while smoking and warned about the costly damage cigarettes could do to sofas, rugs, and clothing.
