The Eighties
1980: Superman II: Lois Lane lights up. In fifty years of comic book appearances, Lois Lane never smoked. For a reported payment of $42,000, Philip Morris purchases 22 exposures of the Marlboro logo in the movie.

1982: 624 billion cigarettes sold in the U.S., the most ever. 60% of them are low-tar brands..

1982: Surgeon General's Report finds possibility that second-hand smoke may cause lung cancer.

1983: San Francisco passes first strong workplace smoking restrictions, banning smoking in private workplaces.

1984: FDA approves nicotine gum as a quit-smoking aid.

1987: Congress bans smoking on domestic flights of less than two hours. Takes effect in 1988.

1988: 20th Surgeon General's Report calls nicotine "a powerfully addicting drug."

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