[ RadSafe ] Interesting Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels

[Mancevice, Corinne]

This is already done in many other countries. http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/10/u-s-cigarette-warning-labels-are-about-to-get-graphic/ The examples from Brazil are quite disturbing.

If you want to make it on topic consider the trace amounts of radioactive material in cigarettes (Po-210, Pb-210). That could make for an interesting warning label, "Contains trace amounts of radioactive Polonium 210", although people would probably misconstrue that to mean that by being near a box of cigarettes you'd receive some amount of dose.


Corinne
(Personal Opinion Only)

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Corinne Mancevice
Sr. Health Physicist
 
Yale University Environmental Health & Safety
135 College Street, Suite 100
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 737-4754
www.yale.edu/ehs



-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:30 PM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Interesting Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels

Purely Off Topic and FYI.

Check out http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/CigaretteProductWarningLabels/default.htm

Some of the pictures seem appropriate, while others are a bit surprising.

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Tom O'Brien  M.S., CHP
Radiation Safety Officer
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Office of Safety, Health and Environment
National Institute of Standards & Technology
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