Tag: "billboards" at medical news

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

...inence money than any other. Very common here are billboards showing teens declaring slogans like: No is where I stand until I have a wedding band. At the same time, some teens that abstain from sex till marriage, do not agree with courses that try to scare teenagers with harrowing talk of ruined lives. I...

CDC Uses Advertising Campaign to Get Kids Moving

...ds in newspapers and pay for communities to put up billboards or banners because we now have evidence that it helps.” Moore said the study shows there is a role for mass marketing in improving health behaviors. “We say to the food industry to quit marketing [unhealthy food] to children. At the same time we’re...

More number of women smokers, says a report

...Health, expressed that advertisements portrayed on billboards display women with cigarettes, the underlying message that it is hip and happening to smoke, and an encouragement for more women to smoke. It is extremely crucial to evolve strategies to disseminate the right information about the risks of cancer,...

UNAIDS Chief Appeals for Projects to Battle AIDS/HIV

...ed to tackle it upfront,' Piot said. 'Instead of billboards warning against AIDS, a warm embrace by the chief minister or an elected representative to a person living with HIV could make all the difference and extremely productive in breaking stigma in the society.' India accounts for about 5.1 million HIV-p...

Extensive Campaigning To Warn Against Children’s Growing Affinity To Fast Food In Britai

...ogs. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has hired billboards around Britain to show burger and hot dog buns filled with gristle, bones and connective tissue. The gory images are obscured by a "censored" stamp, but can be peeled back to reveal the true ingredients on the charity's website. "Kids have lost tou...

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