During World War II, a minute of silence, followed by a recording of church bells pealing, replaced the ball drop because of wartime blackout restrictions
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At the hearing, Thomas Austern, of the powerful Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, who was representing the Tobacco Institute, advanced the argument that any such warning in cigarette advertising was unnecessary, because all the publicity given in the mass mediaincluding the anti-smoking commercialsto the issue of smoking and health demonstrates that the current public awareness of the hazard in cigarette smoking is now patent. You say everybody knows that cigarette smoking is dangerous to health? Commissioner Philip Elman asked the Tobacco Institute counsel
