Tag: tobacco prevention
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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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162,000 Ky. Medicaid members are slaves to tobacco, but only 17% of them use their smoking-cessation benefits
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Ten percent of Kentuckians on Medicaid are dependent on tobacco, but fewer than 2 percent — less than one in five...
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Henry Co. school board votes 3-2 to ban tobacco; farmers split
Wikipedia map: Henry County The use of tobacco is banned on school property in Henry County, following a 3-2 vote by the school board Dec. 21. Some board members are...
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School board in Henry County, including tobacco farmers, will consider a comprehensive smoking ban on its campuses
The Henry County school superintendent got a unanimous go-ahead from his board to present a draft policy to make the district 100 percent tobacco-free, but the board made no promises,...
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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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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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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...