Comprehensive Smoking Education Act

Comprehensive Smoking Education Act

Other short titles	Rotational Warning Act
Long title	An Act to establish a national program to increase the availability of information on the health consequences of smoking, to amend the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to change the label requirements for cigarettes, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	CSEA
Nicknames	Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984
Enacted by	the 98th United States Congress
Effective	October 12, 1984
Citations
Public law	98-474
Statutes at Large	98 Stat. 2200
Codification
Acts amended	Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act
Titles amended	15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade
U.S.C. sections amended	15 U.S.C. ch. 36 § 1331 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 3979 by Henry Waxman (D–CA) on September 22, 1983 Committee consideration by House Energy and Commerce Passed the House on September 10, 1984 (passed voice vote) Passed the Senate on September 26, 1984 (passed voice vote) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on September 26, 1984 (agreed unanimous consent) Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 12, 1984

The Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984 (also known as the Rotational Warning Act) is an act of the Congress of the United States. A national program established in order to improve the availability of information on health risks related to tobacco smoking, to amend the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act so that cigarette warning labels would be different, and for other reasons, the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act was enacted with a purpose to, as stated in Section 1 of the Act, "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".^[1] Adopted by Congress in 1984 and effective October 12, 1984, the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act created a rotational warning system that required all cigarette packages and advertisements to rotate the following four warnings every three months:

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy.

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking by Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, and Low Birth Weight.

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Cigarette Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide.

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.^[1]