In May 13, 1965, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Paul Rand Dixon wrote Senator Warren G. Magnuson to restate the position of the agency that warnings in cigarette advertising, not just labels on packages, would more fully inform the public of the hazards of cigarette smoking and to re-assert that the public interest would be served “if the Commission is left free by the Congress to take action…” While Dixon continued to resist Congress’s pre-emption of FTC regulatory action, he supported amendments to S. 559 providing for a three-year moratorium on FTC regulation while more information about “the health consequences of smoking” was obtained.