Tag: smoking
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Beshear bans use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes on or near buildings and property the state owns or leases
Gov. Steve Beshear issued an executive order Sept, 4 that soon ban all tobacco products and e-cigarettes from more than 26.4 million square feet of executive branch buildings and grounds...
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Appalachian Kentucky has much of what it needs to improve its poor health status, key federal officials agree
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Appalachian Kentucky has the enthusiasm, creativity, people and facilities needed to greatly improve its dismal health status, two high-ranking federal officials said after looking...
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Health-board smoking bans that Supreme Court struck down are still being obeyed: ‘Everybody loves it,’ advocate says
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three counties in Kentucky with unenforceable smoking bans continue to be smoke-free by the people’s choice. Clark, Madison and Woodford counties have smoking bans...
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Fayette County Board of Health wants to regulate electronic cigarettes, raising some questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategies to inform people about their potential dangers, Mary Meehan...
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Smoking-ban supporters on ‘Road to a Healthier Kentucky Tour’ next week to rally support for the 2015 legislative session
The Smoke-Free Kentucky Coalition is kicking off its 2015 campaign to rally support for comprehensive, statewide smoke-free laws on its “Road to a Healthier Kentucky” Tour, from Monday, July 28...
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Smoking among Kentucky youth dropped by one-fourth from 2011 to 2013, biennial CDC survey determines
Photo from TobaccoPreventionK12 By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Fewer Kentucky high-school students are smoking cigarettes. The state dropped to sixth place from first in high-school smoking in the 2013...
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‘This kind of sloppy defiance reeks of a Podunk attitude,’ Hopkinsville paper says after fair doesn’t enforce smoking ban
It’s been a while since we read an editorial as clear, blunt and well-taken as the one the Kentucky New Era ran about the flouting of Hopkinsville’s smoking ban at the...
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Russell County school board makes all campuses tobacco-free, but delays implementation for one year
The Russell County Board of Education has voted to make all the county’s school campuses tobacco-free a year from now, “After some lengthy discussion by the board and visitors,” The...
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Owensboro plans to extend smoking ban to outdoors
Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne says he has the votes to pass a smoking ban for “all public spaces, including parks and outdoor dining areas and city-owned properties,” Steve Vied reports...
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Russell Co. school board plans to make all campuses tobacco-free, renews free-lunch-for-all plan after breaking even
School districts in Kentucky often deal with health issues. The Russell County Board of Education dealt with two important ones, tobacco use and school lunch, in its meeting last week....