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15 USC CHAPTER 36 - CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING 02/01/2010

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TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE

CHAPTER 36 - CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING

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CHAPTER 36 - CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING

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Sec.

1331. Congressional declaration of policy and purpose.

1332. Definitions.

1333. Labeling; requirements; conspicuous statement.

1334. Preemption.

1335. Unlawful advertisements on medium of electronic

communication.

1335a. List of cigarette ingredients; annual submission to

Secretary; transmittal to Congress; confidentiality.

1336. Authority of Federal Trade Commission; unfair or

deceptive acts or practices.

1337. Omitted.

1338. Criminal penalty.

1339. Injunction proceedings.

1340. Cigarettes for export.

1341. Smoking, research, education and information.

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15 USC Sec. 1331 02/01/2010

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TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE

CHAPTER 36 - CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING

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Sec. 1331. Congressional declaration of policy and purpose

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It is the policy of the Congress, and the purpose of this

chapter, 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 about any adverse

health effects of cigarette smoking by inclusion of warning

notices on each package of cigarettes and in each advertisement

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.

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(Pub. L. 89-92, Sec. 2, July 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 282; Pub. L. 91-

222, Sec. 2, Apr. 1, 1970, 84 Stat. 87; Pub. L. 98-474, Sec. 6(a),

Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2204.)

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AMENDMENTS

1984 - Par. (1). Pub. L. 98-474 substituted "about any adverse

health effects of cigarette smoking by inclusion of warning notices

on each package of cigarettes and in each advertisement;" for "that

cigarette smoking may be hazardous to health by inclusion of a

warning to that effect on each package of cigarettes;".

1970 - Pub. L. 91-222 reenacted section without change.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT

Section 3 of Pub. L. 91-222 provided in part that: "All other

provisions of the amendment made by this Act [enacting section 1340

of this title, amending this section and sections 1332 and 1335 to

1339 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under

this section] except where otherwise specified shall take effect on

January 1, 1970."

EFFECTIVE DATE

Section 12, formerly Sec. 11, of Pub. L. 89-92 as renumbered by

Pub. L. 98-474, Sec. 5(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2203, provided

that: "This Act [this chapter] shall take effect on January 1,

1966."

SHORT TITLE OF 1984 AMENDMENT

Section 1 of Pub. L. 98-474 provided that: "This Act [enacting

sections 1335a and 1341 of this title, amending this section and

sections 1332, 1333, 1336, and 1337 of this title, and enacting

provisions set out as notes under this section and sections 1333

and 1335a of this title] may be cited as the 'Comprehensive Smoking

Education Act'."

SHORT TITLE OF 1973 AMENDMENT

Section 1 of Pub. L. 93-109 provided: "That this Act [amending

sections 1332 and 1335 of this title] may be cited as the 'Little

Cigar Act of 1973'."

SHORT TITLE OF 1970 AMENDMENT

Section 1 of Pub. L. 91-222 provided: "That this Act [enacting

section 1340 of this title, amending this section and sections 1332

to 1339 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes

under this section and sections 1333 and 1334 of this title] may be

cited as the 'Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969'."

SHORT TITLE

Section 1 of Pub. L. 89-92 provided: "This Act [enacting this

chapter] may be cited as the 'Federal Cigarette Labeling and

Advertising Act'."

SEPARABILITY

Section 13, formerly Sec. 12, of Pub. L. 89-92 as added by

section 2 of Pub. L. 91-222, and renumbered Pub. L. 98-474, Sec.

5(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2203, provided that: "If any

provision of this Act [this chapter] or the application thereof to

any person or circumstances is held invalid, the other provisions

of this Act [this chapter] and the application of such provisions

to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby."

CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Section 2 of Pub. L. 98-474 provided that: "It is the purpose of

this Act [see Short Title of 1984 Amendment note above] to provide

a new strategy for making Americans more aware of any adverse

health effects of smoking, to assure the timely and widespread

dissemination of research findings and to enable individuals to

make informed decisions about smoking."

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