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HRES 286 100th Congress House Government Operations and Politics Advertising and Marketing Agriculture and Rural Affairs Broadcasting Cigarettes Communications and Broadcasting Health Public health Public service advertising Radio broadcasting Smoking Television Television advertising Tobacco

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should encourage both electronic and print media to air or print more antismoking ads as a public service.

Introduced: October 15, 1987 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Agreed to (House)
Oct 26, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Oct 15, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Oct 15, 1987
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Government should encourage both the print and electronic media to voluntarily print or air public service messages describing the deadly effects of cigarette smoking.

What's happening now October 26, 1987

Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
D
Mfume, Kweisi
Maryland · Nov 3, 1987
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 286: A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should encourage both electronic and print media to air or print more antismoking ads as a public service.. 100th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-286/
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"H. Res. 286: A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should encourage both electronic and print media to air or print more antismoking ads as a public service.." 100th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-286/.
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H. Res. 286, 100th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-286/.
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[H. Res. 286: A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should encourage both electronic and print media to air or print more antismoking ads as a public service.](https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HRES-286/)
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