National Environmental
Health Association Resolution to
Support a Federal Trade
Commission Requirement for Surgeon General Warning Labels on Cigars
Purpose:
To make tobacco warnings consistent. Since cigarettes and smokeless tobacco
currently have hazard warnings on packaging, it would be appropriate for cigars
to carry such a label.
Whereas:
• while cigarette smoking has declined since 1993, the number of
cigar smokers has increased 50 percent;
• this matter has been studied by the Health and Human Services
Office of the Inspector General and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office on Smoking and Health;
• one of the studies involving 18 focus groups of teens reported
that more than one-third of the teenagers had smoked a cigar in the past 30
days; and
• U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has supported this
initiative;
Therefore, be it resolved that
NEHA hereby recommends that the Federal Trade Commission require cigar
manufacturers to put a Surgeon General warning label on their products.
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