Tag: tobacco prevention
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UK picks new dean for College of Nursing
A national leader in nursing education, tobacco control and health-care outreach will be the new dean of nursing at the University of Kentucky. Janie Heath Janie Heath, the associate dean...
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With smoking ban dead for this year, its Senate sponsor holds a last-ditch discussion as she looks to another office
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Republican Sen. Julie Denton, sponsor of the Senate bill for a statewide smoking ban, held a last-ditch discussion Wednesday with the committee she chairs...
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Statewide smoking ban dead for this year, as House Democrats worry about political ramifications in fall elections
The sponsor of a bill for a statewide ban on smoking in enclosed public places said it is dead for this year, Tom Loftus reports for The Courier-Journal. Westrom “It’s...
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Rural health advocate pleads with legislature to ‘end the tobacco epidemic in rural Kentucky’
Sen. Julian Carroll, D-Frankfort, looks at a Smoke Free Kentucky display in the state Capitol. The group added black wreaths after the smoking-ban bill died. (Courier-Journal photo by Jonathan Palmer) The...
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Chief sponsor of statewide smoking ban says it has the votes to pass the House; prospects in the Senate are not as good
A bill to ban smoking in most workplaces and public places, including restaurants and bars, is on its way to the House floor, its main sponsor said after fast approval...
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Columnist responds to poll on smoking ban; he, another foe and two advocates will debate it on KET’s ‘Kentucky Tonight’
Jim Waters of the Bluegrass Institute, which bills itself as “Kentucky’s free-market think tank,” sees “reasonable doubt” in the recent Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky poll that found two out of...
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Key tools against smoking in last 50 years have been taxes, laws, regulations, medicine, education and cessation programs
Eight million lives have been saved as a result of the U.S. surgeon general’s efforts for tobacco control says an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Surgeon...
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Sponsors of statewide smoking ban predict it will finally pass the House, and say it has a chance in the Senate
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Sponsors of a bill to ban smoking in most public places in Kentucky said Wednesday that it will pass the House and has a...
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Bullitt fiscal court’s planned ban on smoking in public buildings would attempt to negate broader health-board regulation
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