Tag: tobacco
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Bullitt County health board will appeal judge’s ruling against smoking ban, with financial help from Clark County
The Bullitt County Board of Health will appeal a local judge’s ruling that it lacks the authority to impose a smoking ban, and it will get some help from the...
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Bullitt judge strikes down health board’s smoking ban; could lead to decision with statewide impact, if appealed
A Bullitt County judge has extinguished a countywide smoking ban that was supposed to go into effect Monday, saying the county health board overstepped its authority. The ruling could lead...
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Opinions on health and safety issues differ among regions in Ky.
New data show Kentuckians’ views on several major health-related issues vary depending on where they live. Those in Eastern Kentucky, the area with the highest poverty rate, are more likely...
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Kentucky’s adult smoking rate falls below 25% for the first time
For the first time since state smoking rates were measured, fewer than one in four Kentucky adults are smokers, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The...
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Judge to decide if health board’s smoking ban will stand in Bullitt County, as one did in Hopkins County
Whether the Bullitt County Board of Health had the authority to pass a countywide smoking ban is in the hands of Bullitt Circuit Judge Rodney Burress, who heard from the...
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Non-profit encourages districts to go tobacco free inside and outside of schools
In an op-ed piece in the Lexington Herald-Leader, Susan Zepeda, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, encourages school districts to adopt comprehensive tobacco-free policies. “Many believe...
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Workshop Aug. 4-5 will help health groups with policy, programs
A two-day workshop intended to help health coalitions and organizations make progress at the policy level and implement evidence-based programs will begin Aug. 4. On the first day, speaker Monte...
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Majority of Americans now support comprehensive smoking bans
For the first time since it started asking the question in 2001, a majority of Americans polled by the Gallup Organization say they support a ban on smoking in all...
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New cigarette warning labels to be in use by fall 2012
Showing graphic photos of rotting teeth, a man with a zipper-like scar down the length of his chest and even a man with smoke coming out of his tracheotomy tube,...
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E-cig, hookah ban takes effect Monday in Madison County
Electronic cigarettes and water pipes known as hookahs will be banned in enclosed public places in Madison County beginning Monday under an amendment to the county’s existing smoking ban. The ban,...