Tech Transfer: Engineering Capstone Program

Tech Transfer: Engineering Capstone Program

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 252 , Segment 6

Episode: Refugee Crisis, Cigarette Warning Labels, Women in Advertising

  • Mar 14, 2016 9:00 pm
  • 18:37 mins

Guests: Kelly Marcum, Director of the Engineering Capstone Program; Spencer Rogers, of BYU’s Tech Transfer Office  We discuss BYU engineering students’ final project with the director of the engineering capstone program.

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Cigarette Warning Labels

13 MINS

Guest: Nicole LaVoie, Doctoral Student at the University of Illinois  Remember how several years ago the Food and Drug Administration decided to start requiring graphic images on cigarette packages to up-the-ante on the warning label? One of the approved images was a mouth riddled with cancer missing teeth and part of the lip. Another showed a man smoking through a hole in his trachea with the words, “Warning: Cigarettes are addictive.”  Well, tobacco companies sued and a court ruled the graphic warnings violated the company’s constitution right to free speech. That case is still tied up in appeals.  But in the meantime, a University of Illinois study found the more intense warnings may not do much to deter smoking.

Guest: Nicole LaVoie, Doctoral Student at the University of Illinois  Remember how several years ago the Food and Drug Administration decided to start requiring graphic images on cigarette packages to up-the-ante on the warning label? One of the approved images was a mouth riddled with cancer missing teeth and part of the lip. Another showed a man smoking through a hole in his trachea with the words, “Warning: Cigarettes are addictive.”  Well, tobacco companies sued and a court ruled the graphic warnings violated the company’s constitution right to free speech. That case is still tied up in appeals.  But in the meantime, a University of Illinois study found the more intense warnings may not do much to deter smoking.