Category: TOBACCO
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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) —–...
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The sooner you quit smoking, the better off your lungs will be; but the sooner you start, the higher will be your risk of cancer death
Photo: Getty Images/Wavebreakmedia —– Smoking’s negative health consequences are well known, but smokers can reduce―or even erase―their risk of dying from lung cancer by quitting at a young age, and...
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Study: E-cigarettes don’t help smokers stay off combustible cigs
truthinitiative.org photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Switching to electronic cigarettes don’t help smokers stay off traditional cigarettes, according to a recent study. “Our findings suggest that individuals...
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FDA authorizes (but doesn’t ‘approve’) three vaping products, saying benefits of helping smokers quit outweigh risk to youth
New York Times photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized three electronic-cigarette products for sale in the United States, marking the first time...
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FDA orders thousands of electronic cigarettes off the market, but delays a decision on Juul, the most popular brand
Photo by Eva Hambach, Agence France-Presse via Getty —– The Food and Drug Administration “delayed a high-stakes decision on whether to permit bestselling vaping brand Juul to stay on the market, while ordering thousands of other electronic...
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Research-based comic book at UK helps readers understand and fight use of electronic cigarettes by teens and young adults
Top of comic book cover, showing students as puppets of an electronic cigarette; story title is “The Villainous Vape” —– By Alicia Gregory University of Kentucky A team at the University...
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Early exposure to tobacco smoke may speed the aging process
Getty image —– Early exposure to tobacco smoke, firsthand and secondhand, may make your body age more quickly, a European study suggests. The study in the journal Environment International builds on earlier...