Tag: smoking ordinances
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Study finds that anti-smoking ordinances help social smokers stop smoking and discourage young people from starting
www,drugfree.org By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Young people who live in areas with smoking bans are less likely to ever smoke, and young males who are light smokers who...
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Leitchfield passes smoking ban to take effect Jan. 1
Grayson County (Wikipedia image) Leitchfield, the seat of Grayson County in west-central Kentucky, will become smoke-free on New Year’s Day. The Leitchfield City Council voted 4-1 on Sept. 19 for the...
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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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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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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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If legislature won’t help protect Kentuckians from the health threat of tobacco, local governments should, Herald-Leader says
Since the Kentucky General Assembly “adjourned without tackling the addiction that kills the most Kentuckians, tobacco,” local communities need to take up the challenge, the Lexington Herald-Leader said in an...
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Seeing statewide smoking ban unlikely, Grayson County group asked Fiscal Court for a local one; only one magistrate favored it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The efforts to pass smoking bans in Kentucky continue on three fronts: in the General Assembly, for a statewide ban; with local governments, for...
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Study outlines historical barriers to tobacco prevention in Kentucky and other tobacco-growing states
A University of Kentucky College of Nursing study published in The Milbank Quarterly has shown that five major tobacco-growing states—Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee—fall behind the rest...
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Bourbon Co. teen named South’s top youth anti-tobacco advocate for his efforts in pushing for county smoking ban
Tyler Boyle (Photo from Lexington Herald-Leader) Tyler Boyle, a Bourbon County High School senior and president of Students Making A Change in the Community, was named the South Region Youth...
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Supporters of smoking bans fear letter from Ky. Association of Counties will halt local efforts to pass such measures
An insurer’s letter has warned counties that they may face rate increases if they are sued about local ordinances, including those against smoking. According to a legal consultant to the Kentucky Center...