Tag: smoking
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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...
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E-cigs: How safe or how risky? Vox reporter looks at evidence
Electronic cigarettes are becoming more popular, but how safe or how risky are they? At this point, the bottom line about e-cigarettes is: “If you’re a chronic smoker looking for...
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CDC says state spends less than 8% of what it should on preventing use of tobacco; companies spend 13 times as much
Kentucky spends only 7.6 percent of what it should spend on preventing the use of tobacco, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its latest annual report...
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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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Lake Cumberland District Health Department using polls in an effort to get school boards to make campuses tobacco-free
Countywide smoking bans are unlikely to pass anytime soon in most of rural Kentucky, but more county school districts are making their campuses tobacco-free. Now a multi-county health department is...
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Combination of tobacco smoke and high radon levels increase Kentuckians’ risk of getting lung cancer by a factor of 10
Red counties are expected to have an indoor radon level high enough to require a radon mitigation system. (USEPA map) Combined exposure to tobacco smoke and radon, an odorless gas...
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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...