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January 17, 2012
| With January 2012 marking its 11th year, National Mentoring Month is the time each year when our nation officially shines a spotlight on the... |
January 17, 2012
January 4, 2012
Please consider recognizing your efforts or those efforts of people you work with. The Target Zero Traffic Safety Award Nominations are due in 2 weeks and we need to ensure that all of the hard efforts made to reduce impaired driving and other traffic deaths are recognized.
The application is easy and due January 12, 2012.
January 3, 2012
January 3, 2012
Here is a video from Utah about the consequences of texting while driving. It is a 15 minute, very effective video. If the simulation is correct, the vehicle that drifted over the center line did not go very far over to cause a whole lot of damage.
http://texting-while-driving.org/videos/two-people-killed-in-texting-while-driving-accident...
read more December 27, 2011
This position is open through January 23, 2012.
December 27, 2011
Young adults who sent and received weekly text messages that tracked their alcohol consumption drank less after 12 weeks, according to a new study.
The study included 45 heavy drinkers, ages 18 to 24, who were identified as hazardous drinkers after they ended up in the emergency room. They were divided into three...
read more December 16, 2011
Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to this year's survey results. However, this positive news is tempered by a slowing rate of decline in teen smoking as well as continued high rates of abuse of other tobacco products (e.g., hookahs, small cigars, smokeless tobacco), marijuana and prescription drugs. The survey results, announced today during a news...
read more December 16, 2011
Help us reach our goal of 500 pledges by January 1!
Join FDA Center for Tobacco Products and help protect kids by pledging to support responsible retailing. We all can play a role in making tobacco-related death and disease part of America's past, not its future. Please take a...
read more December 14, 2011
Funding Opportunity - awards range between $500 - $5,000.
December 14, 2011
By Joan Lowry, Associated Press
- WASHINGTON (AP) - States should ban all driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic devices, except in emergencies, the National Transportation Board said Tuesday.
The recommendation, unanimously agreed to by the five-member board, applies to both hands-free and hand-held phones and significantly exceeds any existing state laws restricting texting and cellphone use behind the wheel.
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December 12, 2011
A new case study of alcohol marketing to young people, Joe Camel in a Bottle: Diageo, the Smirnoff Brand, and the Transformation of the Youth Alcohol Market, has been released by the American Journal of Public Health for publication in its January 2012 edition.
The case study documents the dramatic shift in beverage preference of America's youth from beer to distilled spirits during the last decade and examines the role of distilled spirits marketing in challenging beer's...
read more December 9, 2011
December 9, 2011
Young women who start binge drinking in college may be at relatively high risk of sexual assault, a new study suggests.
The study, by researchers at the University of Buffalo in New York, followed 437 young women from the time they graduated high school through their freshman year of...
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