Tag: tobacco prevention
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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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Smoking increases risk of getting lung cancer by up to 20%, but add other carcinogens and it can go up as much as 300%
If you smoke, your risk of getting lung cancer is as much as 20 times greater than if you don’t. But if you smoke and are exposed to other carcinogens...
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Study in Ky., 3 other states indicates exposure to secondhand smoke in vehicles can cause asthma attacks in non-smokers
Kentucky adults who have never smoked are more likely to have an asthma attack when exposed to secondhand smoke in a vehicle than those who are not exposed, according to...
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Beshear says statewide smoking ban ‘just a matter of time’
Gov. Steve Beshear said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Kentucky will have a statewide smoking ban once Kentuckians get more comfortable with the idea, but he didn’t say how...
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Ky. leads U.S. in emphysema (COPD), but study shows fewer COPD hospitalizations in Ky. places with smoke-free laws
Click on image for larger version People who live in smoke-free communities are less likely to be hospitalized for emphysema, according to a study by the University of Kentucky‘s College of...