Tag: local government
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Ky. and Southeast lack statewide smoking bans; political climate here has shifted focus to local bans; Hazard just passed one
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky hasn’t passed a comprehensive smoke-free law, but neither has any state in the Southeast, notes a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Health ranking of Kentucky seniors moves up, but they are still last in health outcomes, says America’s Health Rankings
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky moved up three spots, from 48th to 45th, in the fourth annual Senior America’s Health Rankings Report. But the state...
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Study says if Ky. cut its smoking rate to the national average, it could save $1.7 billion in health-care costs the very next year
Illustration from University of California-San Francisco By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If Kentucky could cut its smoking rate to the national average, it would save an estimated $1.7 billion...
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Shepherdsville bans smoking with children in vehicle
In the first such ban in Kentucky, the Shepherdsville City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking in motor vehicles with children inside them. Smoking in vehicles with children “is...
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State and national smoke-free leaders tell Ky. advocates to focus on local smoking bans because of political climate in Frankfort
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More Kentucky localities are likely to see efforts for smoking bans, as a statewide ban appears less likely and leading advocates are saying to...
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Kenton County embraces its once-controversial smoking ban as chances of a statewide ban have dimmed
Five years after Kenton County’s smoking ban took effect over great opposition, the county has embraced it, Scott Wartman reports for the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I’m a smoker, but I’m glad...
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Kenton County’s approval of a needle exchange inches Northern Kentucky, hit the hardest by heroin, toward getting one
The Kenton County Fiscal Court unanimously approved a mobile needle exchange program March 29, which moves the City of Covington’s needle exchange program one step closer to fruition, Terry DeMio...
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85 percent of Kentucky adults want schools to be tobacco-free, but only 28 percent of the state’s school districts are
An overwhelming majority of Kentucky adults, 85 percent, want schools to be tobacco-free, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll. But only 28 percent of the state’s school districts...
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Rice Leach, battling cancer and headed for hospice, gets Public Health Hero Award that Fayette health board will name for him
Rice Leach Dr. Rice Leach, a state and national leader in public health for decades, was honored March 14 with the Public Health Hero Award from the Lexington-Fayette County Board...
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Grant is eighth county to approve needle exchange; op-ed calls for N. Ky. to take a vote; and Louisville opens its third site
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Grant County is the eighth county in the state to approve a needle-exchange program, nearly 11 months after the legislature paved the way to...