F.D.A. Unveils Proposed Graphic Warning Labels for Cigarette Packs

From the New York Times - November 10, 2010

By GARDINER HARRIS

Federal drug regulators on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse and another in which a mother blows smoke on her baby.

Designed to cover half the surface area of a pack or carton of cigarettes, and a fifth of any advertisements for them, the labels are intended to spur smokers to quit by providing graphic reminders of tobacco’s dangers. The labels are required under a law passed last year that gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate, but not ban, tobacco products for the first time.


To read the entire article from the New York Times Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/health/policy/11tobacco.html?scp=3&sq=tobacck%20packaging&st=cse.

School Vending Machine Mini-Grants

The Prevention Connections School Vending program is accepting applications for up to 75 mini-grants for $500 each to support a healthy vending initiative in Virginia Title I middle schools as well as high schools with at least a 40% enrollment rate in the school’s free and reduced lunch program.

This is a great opportunity for schools/students to look at what is offered in their vending machines during the school day.



To learn more about the mini-grants visit: http://www.preventionconnections.org/funding.shtml.