Eager to put off demands that measures be taken to reduce use of dirtier coal, and focus on the nation's grim economic realities, the British Government sprang into inaction. But Macmillan understood the need for official to look like they were doing something in the face of this massive civilian catastrophe. In a cynical move, he authorized the issuance of smog masks, known to be useless. And in a respected government tradition, he found it easier to set up a committee to study the problem, rather than come up with ways to keep lethal smog from recurring. By 1954, the committee report noted that deaths and illnesses remained higher than usual until the end of February 1953. By 1956 major legislation to require reductions in coal burning became the law of the land. Is the following statement true, false or not given? Macmillan drafted out the law to reduce the coal burning.