Tag: smoking
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Athletes drive a rise in high schoolers’ use of smokeless tobacco
High-school athletes are using more smokeless tobacco, even though overall tobacco use among high-school students has declined, according to a study published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
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New test developed by top expert at UK will lead to earlier diagnosis of COPD, in which Kentucky leads the nation
A University of Kentucky professor helped develop a new tool to diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is often diagnosed late and is more prevalent in Kentucky than anywhere else...
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State-property smoking ban seems to cut share of smokers in Executive Branch, more than other employees in state health plan
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State-government moves against smoking have reduced it among Executive Branch employees at a greater rate than among state employees who were not affected by...
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U.S. smoking rate drops from 16.8% to 15.2% in one year; Ky. ranks No. 2 in most recent state data; county data are available
“The national smoking rate among adults has reached an all-time low since anti-smoking efforts began decades ago, according to a report this week from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
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Liquids in some e-cigs are linked to serious lung diseases
Electronic cigarettes, which come in multiple flavors such as cotton candy, vanilla custard and unicorn milk, may not be as safe an alternative to traditional cigarettes as some would like...
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Health care industry ranks first, by far, in legislative lobbying since ’93; insurance second, tobacco third; drugmakers’ rank a mystery
By far, health-care interests have spent the most on lobbying the General Assembly since the Legislative Ethics Commission was created 22 years ago, Jonathan Meador of Insider Louisville discovered among...
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Study finds that teens who use e-cigarettes are more than twice as likely as non-using teens to start smoking tobacco products
image: usnews.com Teens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study...
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Elizabethtown schools go tobacco-free, including e-cigs; Hardin County follows suit but will allow smoking in private vehicles
Schools in Elizabethtown will be tobacco-free this year, and those in the surrounding Hardin County district will limit smoking to private vehicles in campuses, The News-Enterprise reports. The Elizabethtown policy...
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Year of perseverance pays off for advocates of school tobacco ban in a county where raising tobacco was long a way of life
Clinton County in red (Wikipedia map) A year of perseverance, education and community input by the local and district health departments paid off as the Clinton County Board of Education...
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Clinton County schools will go tobacco-free in July 2016, do media campaign to prepare people for the change
The Clinton County Board of Education has voted to make all of the county’s school campuses tobacco free, but decided to not implement this program until the 2016 school year...