Deadline Approaching for NOYS Award

Submit a program and WIN BIG for your campus. There are $500 and $1000 awards!

BACCHUS Affliates, do you have a traffic or vehicle safety program to share? Apply for the National Organization for Youth Safety (NOYS) FIFTY BEST Awards

The community contest sponsored by The Allstate Foundation awards $1,000 to 50 youth organizations for their youth-developed and -implemented projects that demonstrate a strong community/campus project focused on youth traffic safety.

Applications are due May 31! Remember, you can't win if you don't enter.

Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) Toolkit for Colleges

Identified as an effective strategy for addressing alcohol abuse among college students, The BACCHUS Network™, under a cooperative agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, created a toolkit to assist college and university campuses utilize screening and brief intervention. Click here to download the pdf of the toolkit and to learn more about this strategy.

http://www.friendsdrivesober.org/documents/SBI_College.pdf

Limited Space Still Available for Social Norms Conference

The National Conference on the Social Norms Approach is a unique and exciting opportunity to meet and interact with some of the leading researchers and practitioners in this rapidly expanding area of health promotion. It is the only national conference devoted entirely to this effective approach, and at no other meeting will so many issues and questions about social norms—from its past success to its future development—be so intensively explored and discussed.

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sunday, July 12 - Tuesday, July 14, 2009

For more information and online registration: http://www.bacchusnetwork.org/social-norms.asp

Junk Food – The Next Frontier

This article discusses the research of former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler. He has begun to look into the “magic formula” for many fast foods—a sugar, fat, salt combination that may have a larger effect on our brains than previously imagined.

http://www.denverpost.com/fitness/ci_12281394

Dr. Kessler suggests several steps that mimic what has been done with tobacco control, including litigation.

What do you think is the most effective strategy for steering people toward healthier food choices? Is tobacco control the ideal model for this health issue? What are the most realistic options at this point in time?

-posted by Tad Spencer

Lung cancer increasing due to cigarette design

Yes, it’s true…the blog is back! Rejoice! I know you all have been waiting for some new tobacco information. Well, I will not disappoint…

A new study conducted by the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine suggests that an increase in nitrosamine levels in American cigarettes has led to an increase in lung cancer. The researchers compared American and Australia cigarettes and found the only major difference to be their nitrosamine levels, with American cigarettes having much higher levels. This is important info because lung cancer death rates are lower in Australia than the United States. The study also says that lung cancer rates could be cut in half with stricter regulation of cigarette composition. For the full article, click here.

Source: CBS News

- posted by Chris Miller