Text Message Program Educates Retailers about New Tobacco Regulations
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing efforts to educate retailers and the public about federal regulations to protect kids from tobacco, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products has launched a six-month text messaging pilot program.
To participate in the program, text BreakChain to 87000 from your mobile phone. You will begin receiving text messages in mid to late September. While there is no charge to participate in the program, standard text messaging and data rates from your wireless carrier may apply.
You will receive approximately three messages a week for the first month. FDA will send educational messages on Mondays and Wednesdays and a weekly quiz on Friday, which will ask you to correctly answer a question about new tobacco legislation. One winner will be selected each week for the first four weeks. Winners will have the opportunity to be featured on www.fda.gov/tobacco via FDA/CDC's bi-weekly podcast series: Tobacco Control Act: What Retailers Need to Know.
At the end of four weeks, FDA will ask for your feedback so that they can make improvements to the program. For the remaining five months of the program, you will receive one message a week.
For more information about the text message program, and for complete contest rules, visit: http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/ResourcesforYou/BreakTheChain/ucm219686.htm.
Additional resources on tobacco regulations can be found at: www.fda.gov/breakthechain.
For questions about the text message program, please contact Jennifer Deets at (301) 348-1697 or [email protected].
The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) oversees the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Some of the Agency's responsibilities under the law include setting performance standards, reviewing premarket applications for new and modified risk tobacco products, requiring new warning labels, and establishing and enforcing advertising and promotion restrictions.
SOURCE Food and Drug Administration
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