Tag: smokeless tobacco
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Smoking ban gets ‘a good scrubbing’ before Judiciary Committee
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The bill for a statewide smoking ban is favored by three-fifths of Kentucky adults, but is dead for this session of the General Assembly....
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UK quickens drumbeat of tobacco-free policy through report line
The University of Kentucky promotes compliance and enforcement of its tobacco-free policy through a community report line, among many other measures. Although the report line was established last spring, its mention...
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Dollar General to sell tobacco in most of its stores by mid-2013, reflecting ‘customer demand’ and ‘competition pressure’
By the middle of 2013, most of Dollar General‘s 10,000 U.S. stores will carry cigarettes and other tobacco products.. The company has made the decision in response to “competitive pressures”...
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Tobacco use higher in rural areas; several factors include tobacco companies’ targeting of rural youth, Lung Assn. says
Tobacco use is higher among rural communities than in suburban and urban areas, and smokeless tobacco use is twice as common. According to the American Lung Association, rural youth are...
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Smoking ban bill clears House committee for first time; but sponsor says she won’t take it farther this session
A measure for a statewide smoking ban passed the House Health and Welfare Committee today, the first time such a bill has cleared committee in legislative history, Deborah Yetter reports...
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Number of teens and young adults who smoke, use smokeless tobacco is on the rise
A “shocking” number of American teenagers smoke cigarettes and/or use smokeless tobacco, the first U.S. surgeon general’s report on youth tobacco since 1994 has found. (Photo by Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images)...
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Replacing cigarettes with smokeless tobacco reduces disease risk, says U of L prof who’s received tobacco-industry funding
Smokers can greatly reduce their risk of disease if they replace their cigarettes with spit-free smokeless tobacco or electronic cigarettes, University of Louisville professor Brad Rodu, right, said in a...