[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1966 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1966

To amend the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to require 
  that cigarettes and cigarette advertising bear a label stating the 
                     addictive quality of nicotine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 1993

 Mr. Slattery introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to require 
  that cigarettes and cigarette advertising bear a label stating the 
                     addictive quality of nicotine.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LABELING REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Substantive Amendment.--Section 4 of the Federal Cigarette 
Labeling and Advertising Act (15 U.S.C. 1333) is amended by 
redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e) and by inserting after 
subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d)(1)(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, 
package, or import for sale or distribution within the United States 
any cigarettes the package of which fails to bear the following label:
        ``SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: NICOTINE IN CIGARETTES IS AN 
        ADDICTIVE DRUG
    ``(B) It shall be unlawful for any manufacturer or importer of 
cigarettes to advertise or cause to be advertised (other than through 
the use of billboards) within the United States any cigarette unless 
the advertising bears the following label:
        ``SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: NICOTINE IN CIGARETTES IS AN 
        ADDICTIVE DRUG
    ``(C) It shall be unlawful for any manufacturer or importer of 
cigarettes to advertise or cause to be advertised within the United 
States through the use of billboards any cigarette unless the 
advertising bears the following label:
        ``SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: NICOTINE IN CIGARETTES IS AN 
        ADDICTIVE DRUG
    ``(2)(A) The label statement required by paragraph (1)(A) shall be 
located in a place opposite to the label statement required by 
subsection (a)(1).
    ``(B) The format of the label statement required by paragraph 
(1)(A) shall be identical to the format of the label statement required 
by subsection (b)(1). The format of the label statement required by 
paragraph (1)(B) shall be identical to the format of the label 
statement required by subsection (b)(2). The format of the label 
statement required by paragraph (1)(C) shall be identical to the format 
of the label statement required by subsection (b)(3).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (e) of such section 4 (as so 
redesignated) is amended by striking out ``Subsection (a)'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``Subsections (a) and (d)''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall apply with respect to 
cigarettes which are manufactured after one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and to cigarette advertising one year after such 
date.

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