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• Shock health warnings backfire .
• Health promotion campaigns which use shock tactics to discourage people from harmful behaviour actually have the opposite effect, researchers have said. ...
• A survey by the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC), based in Oxford, shows that health scares and warnings can cause unwanted psychological side effects. ...
• Warning fatigue - This is when people become desensitised to health messages and pay no attention whatsoever .
• Forbidden fruit effect - A deliberate defiance of authoritarian health warnings. For instance, warnings about the dangers of eating beef on the bone resulted in a rush for just such products before they were banned by the government .
• The researchers say their study shows the need for more responsible health education programmes, and restraint by vested interest groups bombarding the public with conflicting advice. ...
• SIRC researchers monitored media coverage of health issues and public responses over the past three years. ...
• This was most graphically illustrated by the continued failure of health education campaigns to cut the rising obesity rate by encouraging people to take more exercise and improve their diet. ...
• Risk factor phobics tend to be avid readers of health pages and health magazines, the researchers found. ...
• Many women stopped taking the pill as soon as they read reports of possible health risks, resulting in many unwanted pregnancies and a sudden 9% rise in the abortion rate. ...
• Researchers believe that this may be why warnings about the dangers of tobacco, drugs and alcohol often seem to have little effect. ...
• SIRC is calling for a code of practice to regulate how health warnings are issued to the public. ...
• Dr Marsh said part of the problem was that risk to health was often quantified in relative terms, when the actual risk was tiny. ...
• He said that some debates - such as that surrounding the health risk of genetically modified food - had been dominated by organisations who were following an environmental agenda and had brought health issues in to back their argument. ...

• FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 10, 1985 FTC APPROVES REVISED PLANS FOR ROTATION OF HEALTH WARNINGS ON CIGARETTE PACKAGES AND ADVERTISEMENTS The Federal Trade Commission has approved revised industry plans for quarterly rotation of health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements. The Comprehensive Smoking Education Act enacted last year specifies that the required warnings must rotate quarterly, beginning this October. Under the act, the FTC must approve the companies' plans for rotating the warnings. Last January, the FTC notified cigarette manufacturers and importers that they were required under the act to submit plans for rotating package and advertisement health warnings for Com mission approval. In May the FTC rejected industry plans that proposed simultaneous display rather than quarterly rotation of the warnings on packages, saying the law requiring the warnings did not give the agency discretion to accept this modification of the rotational requirements spelled out in the statute. ... The four warnings required by the act on all cigarette pack ages and advertisements are: -- SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy. -- SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health. ... Under the approved plans, cigarette packages will display these warnings on a rotating basis, depending on the quarter in which they are manufactured or packaged. Health warnings in cigarette advertisements must also rotate, and the plans include various provisions for rotating warnings in newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, mass transit posters, point-of-purchase promotional materials and on outdoor billboards. The Commission has sent letters to the cigarette companies notifying them it has approved their plans for rotating warnings on packages and in advertisements and the format they will use for cigarette ads. In addition, the Commission stated in its letters that if cigarette companies intend to import cigarettes, they must notify the FTC whether they will rotate the health warnings using the dates the cigarettes are manufactured or ordered.

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• Federal lawmakers have exclusive authority over tobacco-related health warnings for tobacco packaging and advertisements. ... Constitution, the Federal Government specifically forbids states from imposing new or additional health warnings for tobacco packaging and advertising. ...
• The contentious history surrounding tobacco-related health warnings raises an important message for public health professionals: preemption is a powerful legal tool that has been used successfully to thwart effective state and local tobacco control laws. ... The vigilant public health professional remains aware of preemption in existing and new tobacco-related laws. ...
• This section focuses on health warnings for tobacco product packaging and advertisements. It does not address warnings about secondhand smoke posted in public places. Secondhand smoke warnings are sometimes required under local laws. Public health professionals should check with boards of health or other local officials to ascertain whether secondhand smoke warnings are required at a particular facility or building. ...
• HEALTH WARNINGS FOR CIGARETTS .
• General Rule: Federal law requires that cigarette retail packages display a government-developed health warning. Also, under federal law, cigarette manufacturers and importers may not advertise their products without displaying a mandated health warning in the ad. Neither state nor local governments may impose additional health warnings for cigarette packaging or advertising. ...
• Penalty: Failure to display the cigarette health warning or to display the warning properly is a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine of up to $10,000. ...
• HEALTH WARNINGS FOR CIGARS .
• General Rule: In January 2000, the Federal Trade Commission ordered the leading cigar companies to start to display government-developed health warnings on all of their product packages and advertisements. The health warnings must appear on the principal display surface. ... As with cigarette warnings, neither state nor local governments may impose additional health warnings for cigar packages or advertising. ...

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• Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children if he has considered issuing a health warning on alcoholic beverages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
•    Minister for Health and Children (Mr. ...   Research provided to the task force has suggested that there is very little evidence of any effect on drinking behaviour and alcohol related harm by placing warnings on alcohol beverage containers. ...

• The side effects of health warnings.
• Shock-tactics in health-promotion campaigns have backfired: new analysis from the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford indicates that health warnings may have hidden psychological side effects.
• SIRC has monitored media coverage of health issues and public responses over the past three years, and identified three types of adverse reaction to the high 'doses' of health-scares and warnings received by the British public:.
• The most common effect, in which people become habituated and de-sensitised to health-promotion campaigns, exhibiting a diminishing response and eventually paying no attention at all. ...
• Warning-fatigue is highly dangerous because sufferers from this effect are likely to ignore important health-related information as well as unfounded scares. ...
• While some become habituated and de-sensitised to health campaigns, others develop hyper-sensitivity to scares and warnings, becoming increasingly fearful and anxious about the hazards and 'risk factors' in their diet, lifestyle and environment.
• Riskfactorphobics tend to be avid readers of health pages and health magazines, often over-reacting to each new scare and attempting to follow contradictory advice.
• In 1995, riskfactorphobics stopped taking the contraceptive pill as soon as they read reports of possible health risks, resulting in many unwanted pregnancies and a sudden 9% rise in the abortion rate - which translates as 29,291 additional abortions. ...
• Another very common response to authoritarian warnings is increased desire for the 'forbidden' substance or activity. In many cases, the constant stream of warnings, scares and bans has led to deliberate defiance.
• Heavy-handed warnings about the dangers of drugs and alcohol have been equally ineffective.
• The SIRC research indicates that a more socially responsible approach to health promotion could reduce these adverse effects.
• "The main problem seems to be that health promotion has become a cut-throat competitive industry, with ever-increasing numbers of agencies, charities, politicians and academics vying for media attention and funding," said a SIRC Director.
• "The result of all these competing vested interests is that people are bombarded with scary headlines, warnings and often conflicting advice, much of it based on very flimsy or dubious scientific evidence. ...
• "While some become habituated and desensitised to health campaigns, others develop hyper-sensitivity to scares and warnings, becoming increasingly fearful and anxious about the hazards and 'risk factors' in their diet, lifestyle and environment. ...

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• Ministry of Health warnings on soy formula ignored.
• Sue Kedgley MP, Green Party Health spokesperson.
• Green Party Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley says she is shocked that a review of baby formula has ignored Ministry of Health suggestions to put warning labels on soy-based formula. ...
• “I am astonished that the Australian New Zealand Food Authority is going against a Ministry of Health submission that parents should be told not to use soy infant formula except on advice of a health professional. ...
• Ms Kedgley said the decision made nonsense of ANZFA’s review, which was supposed to protect the health and safety of formula fed infants, and ensure that people have adequate information about infant formula products. ...

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• 114 submission commented on the issue of health warnings. 56 submissions from health groups, church groups and individuals recommended that health warnings be put on all liquor products. Most of these also saw the necessity for warnings to be associated with broadcast media liquor advertising, with some suggesting warnings at point of sale. ...
• Twelve submissions supported standard drinks labelling, but most of these had no views on health warnings. Twenty-seven submissions, mainly from the industry, expressly opposed health warnings while the remainder recommended further work before any decision is made. ...
• The submissions which urged the introduction of compulsory health warnings sought to compare the situation with that applying in relation to cigarettes. ... Indeed, medical evidence would seem to suggest that moderate consumption can lead to some health benefits. Conversely, even light tobacco consumption can cause adverse health consequences. ...
• Indeed, the Ministry of Health considers that further research on the subject is required before such action could be justified, and ALAC, while not opposed to further research, especially NZ conducted, considered that a more useful starting point would be a more thorough examination of the existing research. ALAC went on in its submission to say that it considers that health messages are not the most effective means of achieving a well-informed populace. ...
• We tend to share the view of ALAC that "information which is developed as part of a comprehensive health promotion campaign is more likely to be effective". ...
• We are, therefore, not persuaded that any intervention form of health warnings is an appropriate response to the alcohol abuse issues facing our society. ...
• ALAC promotes a public health message of moderation, and its campaign includes references to the number of "standard drinks" that might safely be consumed. ...

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• Subject: Canada to require tough new health warnings on cigarettes .
• Rock to require tough new health warnings on cigarettes by Ottawa Sun (1603) CANADA; Date: Sunday, 1/17/99 =================== OTTAWA (CP) -- Smoking is hazardous to your erection. ... The wording has not been revealed, but some reference to male sexual performance will likely be included in a new batch of cigarette package messages to be announced today by Health Minister Allan Rock, sources said.  Research has shown smoking can cause erectile dysfunction and experts believe this fact might have more impact on male smokers than familiar warnings of cancer and death. Rock is to reveal the proposed new health warnings today at a luncheon sponsored by Physicians for a Smoke-Free Society to mark National No-Smoking Week. ... Rock has shaken up the Health Department, naming new people to key posts in the tobacco policy area, said Cynthia Callard of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. ... This is an area where a health minister should be able to shine. ... Rob Parker, president of the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers' Council, said Rock's offensive is motivated by politics rather health policy. ...

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• MONTREAL -- The Canadian Cancer Society urged a court Tuesday to reject a request by tobacco firms for a delay in introducing larger health warnings on cigarette packages. ...
• But Julie Desrosiers, lawyer for the cancer society, dismissed the tobacco firms' pleadings that they couldn't increase the size of warnings in time for the deadline. ...
• "It's not the first time they've made this argument," said Desrosiers, citing similar objections raised by the tobacco companies when the current warnings were introduced five years ago. ...
• The law would increase the size of the health warnings to about 50 per cent of the package, up from 30 per cent, and require grim colour photos of body parts diseased because of tobacco use. ...
• Tremblay ridiculed the idea that anyone would be dissuaded from smoking by Health Canada's required images of rotten gums and other physical infirmities blamed on tobacco use. ...
• Desrosiers said the tobacco firms claim they only want to extend the deadline for the bigger warnings until March or April 2001, but they're really seeking a delay of maybe a year and a half. ...

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• EU cigarette packs to get graphic health warnings .
• Last Updated: 2003-08-04 9:11:55 -0400 (Reuters Health).
• LONDON (Reuters) - Cigarette packs in Europe could soon carry graphic images showing the harmful effects of tobacco to remind smokers of how they are damaging their health, experts said Monday. ...
• A poll commissioned by the European Commission to test the effectiveness of warnings on cigarette packs revealed that they were being ignored by many smokers. ...
• So regularly updated images of diseased organs, similar to the graphic pictures used on cigarette packs in Canada, may now accompany the health warnings. ...
• The results of the survey, conducted by Cancer Research UK in seven European countries and released at the 12th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Finland, showed the small warnings that have been on cigarette packets for many years were no longer effective. ...
• Hastings said in an interview that cigarette companies would never use the same advertisement for 20 years to encourage people to smoke, and the same should apply to health warnings. ...
• "There is very much a need with health warnings to innovate and keep people's interest and attention," he added. ...
• According to the survey, many smokers believe the old warnings were just a 'get out' clause for the government or tobacco industry. Smokers also thought the government was tied to tobacco tax revenue but felt a duty to murmur health warning. ...
• Hastings said he hopes the images and warnings will help to stigmatize tobacco and remind people that there is no other product on the market that can kill people if they use it as directed by the manufacturer. ...
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• Federal Health Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge, today welcomed the news that the prevalence of smoking among Australians continues to fall. ...
• "We are already seeing events phase out their tobacco sponsorship and we are looking to follow Canada's lead to strengthen our health warnings on cigarette packets to make them more robust and confronting", Dr Wooldridge said.
• Speaking on the final day of Australia's First National Tobacco Control Conference in Adelaide today, Dr Wooldridge awarded Steve Woodward, Director, Protocol Management UK Ltd, the World Health Organisation's World No-Tobacco Day commemorative medal and citation.
• "We have acted against smoking through public campaigns, legislation and research to improve the evidence base on the health effects of tobacco use that claims 18,000 Australian lives each year and costs the nation at least $12. ...
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• MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia's two biggest airlines said Wednesday they will print health warnings onto their tickets about the danger of potentially deadly blood clots for passengers on long, cramped flights. ...
• Both Qantas and Ansett said they would increase the warnings given to passengers about the risk of deep vein thrombosis on long-haul flights. ...
• The health warnings will advise long-haul passengers to wear loose clothing, eat light meals and avoid drinking too much alcohol to lessen the risk of potentially fatal blood clots. ...

• Intl-tobacco Canada: Smokers circumvent graphic health warnings (fwd) .
• Smokers circumvent graphic health warnings Source: CBC News, Friday, 12/29/00 MONTREAL - New packaging on cigarettes showing blackened lungs and rotting teeth has sparked an Ottawa entrepreneur to come up with a new idea. ... " New packaging by Health Canada is causing some smokers to buy more pleasant pictures to mask the graphic photos. ... Health Canada officials say the backlash is proof the new campaign is working, showing that smokers are uncomfortable with the pictures. ... "Earlier when we had warnings on the packages there were funny stickers you could put on making fun of them and that didn't last. ...

• Press Release For immediate release April 7, 2004 As a precaution, the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. ...
• Press Release For immediate release April 5, 2004 The Algoma Health Unit is advising consumers that effective April 5, 2004, the Boil Water.
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• Consumption of powder enfalac pregestimil hypoallergenic infant formula may cause adverse health effects OTTAWA, March 31, 2004 - The Canadian.
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• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposed New Health Warnings on Tobacco Products.
• Report Prepared for Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
• This report provides an economic evaluation of the Department of Health and Ageing’s proposals that larger and more graphic health warnings be displayed on tobacco products. ...
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Proposed New Health Warnings on Tobacco Products  776. ...
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• Public comment is invited on a new regulatory proposal for health warnings on tobacco products. The proposal covers the introduction of larger graphic warnings for tobacco products, a new rotation system for health warnings and a new information message on the side of the pack to provide consumers with qualitative information on the toxicity of tobacco smoke. ...
• A new set of 14 graphic health warnings and explanatory messages to cover 50% of the front and back of the pack. The proposed new warnings are in full colour, larger than the present warnings and provide information on an expanded range of health effects of smoking. Refer to "Graphic warnings" PDF Downloads at the bottom of the page.
• A new rotation system for health warnings in order to optimise consumer learning and awareness of the health effects of smoking. This would involve the use of 7messages in the first year of the new warnings, then the resting of these messages and use of another 7 messages in the second year. ...
• A set of new health warnings specifically for cigars intended to increase the awareness of consumers of the health risks of smoking cigars.
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• Cigarette packs are obliged to carry health warning. ... Most cigarettes packs produced in Ukraine carry the health warning such as "Ministry of Health warns: smoking is dangerous to your health", "Smoking is dangerous to your health", "Smoking is dangerous to health", "Smoking makes life shorter". ...

• Ireland Mulls Health Warnings on Alcohol Products .
• Health warnings on Drink It's enough to make even the most hardened drinker think about becoming a teetotaler. Fresh from an assault on their previously inalienable right to light up in pubs throughout Ireland, tipplers are now facing the prospect of cigarette-style health warnings on bottles and cans of alcohol. The health ministry confirmed Monday it was considering introducing warnings in an effort to persuade binge drinkers to sober up, after surveys showed the Irish are among the world's highest per capita drinkers. ... A health ministry spokesman denied the proposed crackdown would turn Ireland into a "nanny state," given the imminent ban on smoking in the workplace. "The motivation behind these measures is public health and nothing else," he added. ... 7 billion a year in costs for health care, crime, road accidents and lost productivity. A clampdown has been backed by the country's health profession with three-quarters of doctors favoring warning labels similar to those found on cigarette packets, according to a survey in the Irish Medical Times. However, the drinks industry gave a less favorable response and said an extension of health warnings on cigarettes to alcohol made little sense. "Alcohol, when consumed moderately, does not cause any harm and so a health warning wouldn't make much sense in a straightforward sense," said Pat Barry, director of corporate affairs at Diageo Plc, brewers of Irish traditional tipple Guinness. ...
• is NOT concerned about anyone's health. ...
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• If public health is the motivation, and perhaps the drain on the economy caused by the publics bad health, watch out for new laws coming to a health minister near you. ... -brush your teeth before bed-time, cos now its the LAW -penalties for insufficient milk consumption -Bed-time police -daily excercise certificates and tax penalties for obesity Public health can be a serious business, especially for the crypto-health-fascists.

• Smoking causes male sexual impotence: BMA calls for health warnings.
• The British Medical Association and Action on Smoking and Health have published a report Smoking and Male Sexual Problems warning that smoking is responsible for impotence in 120,000 UK men aged 30 to 49.
• Health warnings on cigarette packets are a simple, very direct way of bringing the message home to smokers. The BMA is therefore asking the UK Government and the European Union to add a new health warning "smoking causes male sexual impotence" to tobacco packaging.
• Young men are notoriously resistant to health warnings and think they will have given up smoking long before cancer or heart disease catches up with them. ...

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• Health warnings on smoke upgraded.
• Public health officials today upgraded warnings on potential health effects of the air pollution caused by the bush fires. ...
• Director of the Centre for Public Health of Greater Murray Area Health Service Mr Tony Kolbe said, “ The level of particulate matter in the air is very high. The air pollution does pose some important health problems particularly for people with asthma and heart disease”. ...
• Mr Kolbe advised that people with asthma should take extra care of their health at this time. ...
• Public Health will continue to monitor the situation in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Authority. ...

• Health warnings on food are going nuts.
• The other day I went into our local health food shop to buy some salt. I don't suppose health food shops really enjoy selling salt, which is now known to be very bad for you as well as being very good for you, but you don't get ordinary salt in a health food shop, anyway. ...
• They're scattering these warnings about possible nut content on everything, even things that clearly don't contain nut. ...
• "But if they put warnings about possible nut content on everything," I said, "what about people who really do suffer from nut allergy? What will they be able to eat safely? What will be free from warnings about nuts?" .
• You'll find some poor sufferer from nut allergy who is unable to buy any food because it all bears warnings about possible nut content, yea, even unto salt and bottled water. And deprived of any safe food he will waste away and starve to death, and his grieving family will sue the manufacturers for putting false warnings about nuts on their products, leading to his death, which will mean that what the big companies thought was a safe, complaint-proof warning about nuts in fact turned out to be a killer. ...

• Washington, DC - One year after Canada required large, picture-based health warnings on cigarette packs that depict the devastating effects of tobacco use on the human body, a new national survey released today by the Canadian Cancer Society shows that the new warnings are highly effective at discouraging smoking. The effectiveness of Canada’s graphic warnings underscores the woeful inadequacy of the current cigarette health warnings in the United States. ... S Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products, including the authority to require larger, more visible and more effective warnings. ... The proposed legislation would require larger, picture-based health warnings on U. ...
• Under Canada’s law, the top 50 percent of the front and back of each cigarette package must depict one of 16 rotated, full-color, picture-based warnings. ... As a result, Canadians receive detailed, highly visible information about both the magnitude of the health risks they face and the practical steps they can take to quit. ...
• The survey, conducted September 19-October 10, 2001, found that 90 percent of Canadian smokers had noticed the new warnings (compared to 49 percent of non-smokers), and 43 percent of smokers said they are more concerned about the health effects of smoking because of the warnings. Forty-four percent of smokers said the new warnings increased their motivation to quit smoking, and of those who attempted to quit, 38 percent said the warnings were a motivating factor. The survey was funded by the Institute of Cancer Research of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. ...
• smokers even see the warnings. ... warnings are weak, outdated, incomplete, and not nearly as graphic and prominent as they should be. Despite attempts by some members of Congress to legislate more effective warning labels, the warnings have changed hardly at all since Congress mandated the first warning labels on U. ...
• (More information on the Canadian survey; view the Canadian health warnings. ...

•   Graphic health warnings on cigarette packs.
• The European Commission proposed last 8th September that packets should not only carry textual health warnings such as - "Smoking may reduce the blood flow and causes impotence", but that packets should also carry images to discourage smokers. ...
• As of the end of this month (30 September), cigarette packets sold in the EU are to include health warnings in the form of large black on white text, covering at least 30% of the front of the cigarette pack and at least 40% of the back. ...
• Health Commissioner David Byrne announced a tender in Brussels inviting interested parties to create and pre-test such images, which Member States will be able to choose from. ...
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• A survey by the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC), based in Oxford, shows that health scares and warnings can cause unwanted psychological side effects. ... Researchers believe that this may be why warnings about the dangers of tobacco, drugs and alcohol often seem to have little effect.
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• "Avoid health warnings on all tobacco products for just as long as we can": a history of Australian tobacco industry efforts to avoid, delay and dilute health warnings on cigarettes.
• School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. simonchapman@health. ...
• OBJECTIVE: To review critically the history of Australian tobacco industry efforts to avoid, delay, and dilute pack warnings on cigarettes. ... RESULTS: Four industry strategies and six recurrent arguments used by the industry are described, which were used to thwart the passage of three generations of health warnings (implemented in 1973, 1987, and 1995). These strategies are shown to have been associated with major delays in the implementation of the warnings and in keeping them inconspicuous, unattributed to the industry and non-specific, and particularly in delaying the use of warnings about addiction. The industry today continues to oppose warnings, which might "repel" smokers from tobacco use. CONCLUSIONS: Efforts by governments to introduce potent health warnings will be resisted by the tobacco industry. ...
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