concern. In fact, previous to this tobacco manufacturers claimed an increase in health and medicinal properties for tobacco products. With the formation of the Council for Tobacco Research, in 1954, a direct link was sought between smoking and health related problems. Upon the finding of such evidence major cigarette manufacturers unite.Under the unified front of The Tobacco Institute, big tobacco sought to change government from within. As stated in the book, “Those who want to initiate change in policy have come to recognize that their cause will succeed only with hard work, careful strategy, and large portions of luck (37).” With the help of former Senators and previously and elected officials tobacco had the ear of government. One such example of this would be former Senator Earle C. Clements of Kentucky. Clements former constituency base of Kentucky had afforded him the experience of dealing with tobacco, as Kentucky and North Carolina are the primary producers of tobacco within the United States. So with this inside knowledge of previously working in Washington, combined with his work in Kentucky, Clements rightfully proposed a compromise between Federal Trade Commission and the six largest cigarette manufacturers he was hired by in 1964. In January of 1964, the Surgeon General issues the report of the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. The report was key not only because it would be the first in what would become a stream of reports for later down the line. But, “Ultimately, the impact of the Surgeon General’s report on the political system was just what the antismoking interest had hoped for: It provided the Federal Trade Commission with an opportunity to make its move. The Advisory Committee, by bringing up the issue into focus, gave the subsystem a blow that was to prove fatal. The bureaucracy was given the backing it needed to spring into action. But before the bureaucracy could suc...
