Category: TOBACCO
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Vapers or hookah users may be at greater risk for nose and sinus cancers, and upper respiratory ailments, than cigarette smokers
Photo by Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune, via Alamy —– Electronic cigarette vapers and hookah smokers are more than twice as likely to exhale particles through their nose compared with cigarette smokers,...
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Health advocates say state government needs to do a lot more about tobacco, including letting local governments regulate sales
Map by Bridging Research Efforts & Advocacy Toward Healthy Environments, University of Kentucky —– As the state legislature ponders allowing local governments to again regulate tobacco sales, the Lexington Herald-Leader has produced a...
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‘Fighting to Breathe,’ a look at lung diseases in Ky., their causes and new treatments, premieres Monday night on KET
Kentucky Educational Television is airing a three-part series and forum that will examine the under-told story of lung cancer and other lung diseases in Kentucky: the causes, the impact on those...
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UK researcher who pioneered faith-based project to tackle cervical cancer has expanded her work to the national level
Nancy Schoenberg —– By Alicia Gregory and Ben Corwin University of Kentucky The best solutions begin when you listen to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based...
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Bill would start state program to screen for lung cancer, in which Ky. leads in cases and deaths, to catch it earlier and save lives
Rep. Kim Moser —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky leads the nation in lung cancer. In an effort to get more eligible Kentuckians screened for it, to catch...
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House sends Senate a budget bill with many provisions dealing with health issues, several with less than Beshear proposed
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state House of Representatives passed a two-year state budget Thursday that includes a number of provisions for health, including many that were in...
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America’s Health Rankings provide a snapshot of Kentucky’s health challenges, but also of its recent progress
Kentucky page of report from United Health Foundation; to enlarge or download, click on it. —– By Ben Chandler Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky As we move into another year, the...
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Baptist Health offers a free, one-hour, online class to help smokers quit; the next one is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 12
“Quitting tobacco is one the most common New Year’s resolutions made each year, but often proves to be one of the most difficult to keep,” Baptist Health says in a news release...
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Legislature will again be asked to let local governments pass tobacco-regulation ordinances, aimed at preventing youth use
Sen. Paul Hornback —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers can expect another bill to be filed in January to give local governments the ability to regulate tobacco...
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Ky. ranks first in lung-cancer cases, and low in survival and early diagnosis, but prevention, screening and treatment are easier now
At 89 cases per 100,000 residents, Kentucky is No. 1 in the rate of new lung cancer cases. The national rate is 58. (Map from the American Lung Association 2021 State of Lung Cancer report) —–...