Tag: cigarettes
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10 years ago, Lexington’s smoking ban started creating a healthier city and a movement among others in Kentucky
A decade ago, Lexington took a bold step by enacted the state’s first public smoking ban, in a city that once proudly touted its status as the “World’s largest burley...
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U.S. adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent; when state rates come out, will Kentucky still have the country’s highest?
CDC chart; confidence interval (or error margin) means that 95 percent of the time, the result for the entire U.S. populationwould be within the range indicated at the tops of the bars....
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Williamsburg in line to pass smoking ban next month
An ordinance imposing a smoking ban in Williamsburg is ready for a City Council vote. The council listened Monday to the first reading of the ordinance, required before a vote, which...
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3 in 5 Kentucky adults favor a statewide smoking ban, according to an independent poll that may have oversampled smokers
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians now favor a statewide smoking ban by a margin of 3 to 2, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll conducted last...
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U.S. teens’ cigarette use drops to a new low, but use of alcohol goes up a bit and more 12th graders are smoking marijuana
Teenagers’ cigarette smoking dropped to a record low this year but alcohol use rose slightly after seven years of decline, according to a survey of 45,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-...
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Study: Raising cigarette taxes does curb even heavy smoking
The more you raise cigarette taxes, the less people smoke. That presumption was confirmed this week in a study by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This...
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Teen smoking in Kentucky declined more than it did in nation from 2002 to 2010, but state remained in top 10
Like most states, Kentucky showed a drop in reported cigarette smoking among 12- to 17-year-olds from 2002 to 2010, according to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
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Cigarette companies balking at Justice Dept’s request for “confessional” advertising that they say goes too far
Calling them “forced public confessions,” America’s largest tobacco companies are asking a federal judge to reject the government’s proposed corrective statements for cigarette advertising. Fred Frommer reports for the Associated...
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Study estimates that secondhand smoke kills 42,000 Americans a year, and 900 of those are babies
More bad news for smokers and those who love them: A report out this week in the American Journal of Public Health says secondhand smoke is accountable for 42,000 deaths...
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Smoke Free Kentucky Coalition’s multi-city tour launches push for statewide smoking ban in 2013 legislature
Backers of an effort to ban smoking in all public places in Kentucky took their message on the road this week in hopes of getting legislation passed in the 2013...