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New grocery opens with a focus on organic, natural and local products

Sasha Johnson | News Editor August 1, 2011

Carolina Farmin', a 17,000-square-foot, locally owned grocery store, is opening its doors and inviting the community to join during a five-day grand opening celebration Aug. 4-7. Carolina Farmin', located...

BREAKING NEWS: Shots fired, UNCW police apprehend suspect

July 28, 2011

 Wilmington Police have released details of a shooting near campus. The incident was reported at 4:21on Friday afternoon. David Carroll, 42, was shot at the Seahawk Square Apartments on Seahawk Court.His...

Wave Transit expands through new infrastructure, partnership, bus routes

Sasha Johnson | News Editor July 27, 2011

Managing to keep afloat in rough economic waters, Wave Transit is on the up and up. Passenger revenue is significantly above what had been budgeted for this year, and Wave Transit is continuing to expand...

FDA requires graphic images on cigarette packs

Sasha Johnson | News Editor July 18, 2011

The Food and Drug Administration has required that graphic images—rotting teeth, the corpse of a smoker and a diseased lung, among others—take up the top half of the front and back of all cigarette packs by September 2012.

The nine images, which also include a man with a tracheotomy smoking and a woman with a baby surrounded by smoke, will be accompanied by phrases like "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer."

"The new warning labels on cigarettes are a huge step forward," said Geoff Zuckerman, Tobacco Free Colleges Coordinator at UNCW. "We hope it will help people think twice before buying another pack and help them to kick the highly addictive habit. We also hope that it will prevent youth from ever buying their first pack."

Tobacco advertisements larger than 12 inches must also contain a warning label that constitutes 20 percent of the ad. Smaller advertisements are not required to have 20 percent coverage but must include a warning.

Tobacco makers in the past have fought government regulation of warning labels on the grounds that the visibility of the brand is compromised. A 2009 federal lawsuit filed by Reynolds-American Inc. called the mandatory use of larger labels "unconstitutional," according to an article in Industry Leaders Magazine.

Canada, Brazil and Australia are among the 30 countries worldwide that have implemented similar rules requiring graphic images or warnings on the sides of cigarette packs. Member countries of the European Union must print warnings such as "Smokers die younger" and "Smoking kills" in large typeface.

"These kind of graphic warning labels strengthen the understanding of people about the health risks of smoking," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in an interview with the Associated Press. "We clearly have to renew a national conversation around these issues and enhance awareness."

According to the Center for Disease Control, more deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. The CDC estimates that cigarette smoking causes 443,000 deaths each year in the United States.

Chancellor Gary Miller takes office, installs committee to ease transition

Sasha Johnson - News Editor July 18, 2011

 Chancellor Gary Miller's first order of business as head of UNCW was to form the Chancellor's Transition Committee to introduce Miller and his wife Georgia to the campus, local communities and the state...

Above-average hurricane activity predicted for 2011

Sasha Johnson | News Editor July 4, 2011

June 1 marks the start of the 2011 hurricane season, and the National Hurricane Center is predicting an above-average summer with three to six major hurricanes of Category 3 and above possible in the Atlantic.Hurricane...

Board of Governors names Gary Miller chancellor of UNCW

Sasha Johnson | News Editor May 2, 2011

Today the UNC Board of Governors named Dr. Gary L. Miller chancellor of UNC Wilmington. Miller, provost and vice president for academic affairs and research at Wichita State University, accepted the appointment...

Statewide contest calls for creative tweets and texts to encourage young people to quit smoking

Sasha Johnson | Assistant News Editor May 2, 2011

As part of the N.C. Tobacco Free Colleges initiative, students from around the state submitted Tweets for your Sweet—short messages that they would send to someone they cared about to encourage them...

Budget cuts and their effects on UNCW students

Jeremy Deal | Staff Writer April 26, 2011

 Wary of North Carolina's $2.7 billion deficit,the Office of State Budgetand Managementinstructed all UNC campuses to draw up budgets for possible 5 percent, 10 percent and 15 percentcuts to their state...

Model train world record–live stream

TealTV April 21, 2011

Wilmington will be the home of a Guinness World Record attempt on April 23. The Wilmington Railroad Museum is set to build the longest model train in the world at the Wilmington convention center. Free...

Hawkstream Radio returning full-force fall 2011

Megan Burris | Staff Writer April 20, 2011

SGA approved Hawkstream Radio's budget this March, so the station will return to full functionality for the 2011 fall semester, according to Station President Jordan Dubreuil.Student Media Coordinator...

Grad student seeks change by running for City Council seat

Sasha Johnson | Assistant News Editor April 20, 2011

Joshua Fulton, a graduate student at UNCW, will run for one of three city council spots opening up this year. Fulton is a student in the creative writing MFA program and has lived in Wilmington for two...

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