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Spell - Checking Software Need a Warning Label ?

D ecades ago, as personal computers began to pry their way into our organizational lives, word processing software could barely keep up with fast typists. Today’s processors are two to four thousand times their 1MHz speed in 1980, and have data paths eight times their former size. On the road to greater speed, vendors seem to have always rushed in with more sophisticated features to use up thos...

Alcohol warning label perceptions: Emerging evidence for alcohol policy.

OBJECTIVES Patterns of alcohol and cigarette use and abuse can be considered parallels due to their similar social, biological and epidemiological implications. Therefore, the cross-fertilization of policy research, including health warnings evidence, is justified. The objective of this study was to apply the lessons learned from the tobacco health warnings and plain packaging literature to an ...

Groups urge warning label for medical devices containing toxic chemical.

The alcohol beverage warning label: when did knowledge increase?

This article presents data on the awareness of the alcohol beverage warning label among a sample of 5,169 inner city African-American gravidas seeking prenatal care. While the label law was implemented in November 1989, a significant increase in knowledge of the label did not occur until March 1990. Women who predominantly consumed wine coolers and beer, and those under age 30 were more likely ...

Cigarette warning label policy alternatives and smoking-related health disparities.

BACKGROUND Pictorial health warning labels on cigarette packaging have been proposed for the U.S., but their potential influences among populations that suffer tobacco-related health disparities are unknown. PURPOSE To evaluate pictorial health warning labels, including moderation of their influences by health literacy and race. METHODS From July 2011 to January 2012, field experiments were...