Smoke Stoppers Red Circle

White text on a black background with a small illustration of a white cigarette underneath a red anti-circle

By the late 1940s to early 1950s, the medical industry had performed multiple studies that demonstrated clear, adverse health risks that were a result of smoking. After recommendations from the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and other medical societies—and despite lobbying by cigarette and tobacco companies—the United States Surgeon General released a 1964 report confirming the damaging health repercussions associated with smoking cigarettes. In the following decades a number of anti-smoking campaigns and programs were created, including the Smoke Stoppers program which was trademarked in 1997. Smoke Stoppers was a twenty-one day medical program designed to help patients stop smoking through the use of behavioral methodologies with daily guides.