A bill to provide that funds projected to be expended for a new program on smoking and health, announced by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on January 11, 1978, be redirected for research on any potentially harmful properties of tobacco.

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Prohibits, during the fiscal years 1978 and 1979, the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a program on smoking and health described by the Secretary of such Department on January 11, 1978. Stipulates that programs on smoking and health for the period beginning October 1, 1977 and ending January 10, 1978, shall not be affected. Limits the use of funds which were projected on or before January 11, 1978, to be expended to carry out the program on smoking and health, announced on such date, to expenditures for additional research during 1978 or 1979 on the harmful properties of tobacco and dangerous effects of smoking.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 21 March 1978

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