Category: TOBACCO
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Vaping and substance use in Kentucky schools has spiked in the last five years, especially in the younger grades; up 147% overall
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The number of drug, alcohol and tobacco events recorded by schools have increased in schools at all levels across Kentucky, according to data collected...
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Biden administration indefinitely postpones ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback from Black voters, others
By Matthew Perrone and Zeke Miller Associated Press President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a...
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Kentucky is No. 4 in smoking, down from No. 2, but at 17.4% of adults, experts say the state’s smoking rate is still way too high
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky still has one of the nation’s highest adult smoking rates, but has fallen to fourth among the states, after many years of either...
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Top senators, one of whom lost both parents to smoking, say no advocates spoke to them about increasing anti-tobacco spending
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s top two state senators said Tuesday that none of the advocates for more funding of tobacco prevention spoke to them about it during...
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Legislature rejects pleas, cuts tobacco-prevention spending; passes vape bill some say could spur youth smoking
UPDATE, April 16: Senate President Robert Stivers and Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer told Kentucky Health News that no one spoke to them about more money for tobacco prevention, and...
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Legislature rejects pleas, cuts tobacco-prevention spending; passes vape bill some say could spur youth smoking
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern In a year when the American Cancer Society asked the Kentucky legislature to increase spending on tobacco prevention, lawmakers cut it and passed an anti-vaping...
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Whether or not you smoke can be influenced by heredity; new research may help identify specific risks and ways to quit
Kentucky Health News If your parents or grandparents smoke, you are more likely to smoke. Perhaps that’s one reason smoking persists in Kentucky, which has had a higher rate of...
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Appeals court upholds proposed warning labels for cigarette packs, but sends case back down to decide a procedural issue
By Kevin McGill Associated Press A federal rule to require cigarette packs and advertising to include graphic illustrations that demonstrate the effects of smoking — including pictures of smoke-damaged lungs and...
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If you are diagnosed with cancer and you smoke, that’s one more reason to stop, says UK doctor who co-chaired national survey
Smokers who have cancer have a better chance of overcoming the disease if they stop smoking, but not all cancer-treatment programs do a good job of encouraging patients to quit,...
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French research indicates that smoking has an effect on immunity to diseases, through molecules that attach to DNA
Kentucky Health News Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses, say a team of French scientists in a research paper...