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Back in 1965, Gilbertthen a heavy smokerfiled a patent for a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette. An advertisement from the patent office boasted that his battery-powered cigarette uses no tobacco and produces no smoke and that the invention also has medical potential. You could argue that the timing for Gilberts idea couldnt have been worse: The 1960s were boom years for tobacco advertisinga time when cigarette companies could still get away with ads that boasted that More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette. Gilberts e-cigarette never went into production, despite his appeals to tobacco companieswhich we now know have been researching a healthier alternative to cigarettes since the 1950s

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Worse still, an advance of the deadline from September of 1973 to September of 1970 for removing cigarette commercials from the air was going to cost the broadcasters perhaps a third of a billion dollars in advertising revenue, the amount depending on the terms of a proposed phaseout

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