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Do cigarette warning labels work -- results from 4 countries
02-06-2007 · EurekAlert!As the second leading cause of death in the world, cigarette smoking is a preventable behavior. Most countries require warnings about health risks on every package, but the effectiveness of these warnings depends upon the design and the "freshness" of the messages. In a multi-country study published in the March 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that more prominent text messages were more effective and graphic pictures even more so.
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11-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Mental disorders cause 1.3 billion annual days of lost role performance
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- Rising food prices threaten world's poor people
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