The National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, composed of representatives from twelve voluntary health agencies and three government agencies, was chaired by Emerson Foote, a former advertising executive who had worked for the tobacco industry. In the wake of the surgeon general's report the council recommended a total ban on cigarette advertising. The American Medical Association (AMA) opposed that action as being taken too hastily. It later became known that the AMA had received a large grant from the tobacco industry to conduct a five-year study of smoking and health.

Sources:

"The Government Report," Time, 83 (17 January 1964): 42;

"One Year Later," Time, 85 (22 January 1965): 58;

"The Smoking Report," Scientific American, 210 (February 1964): 66-67.