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The recent rise of interest in health warnings has coincided with federal legislation mandating new, rotating warnings on cigarette packages (Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984); the warning requirement has also been extended to smokeless tobacco products, including snuff and chewing tobacco (Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986). The new warning requirements stem from the increased awareness on the part of the public health advocates of possible health risks (Blasi & Monaghan, 1986) and also from increased efforts by lobbying groups to further restrict both cigarette advertising (Abramson, 1986:1) and permissible smoking in public areas.
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Dumas, B.K. (1990). Adequacy of Cigarette Package Warnings. In: Levi, J.N., Walker, A.G. (eds) Language in the Judicial Process. Law, Society and Policy, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3719-3_11
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