Tag: tobacco
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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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CVS Health leaves U.S. Chamber over lobbying for tobacco in foreign countries; Paducah editor calls lobbying ‘thick-headed’
CVS Health announced it would end its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over reports that the Chamber had lobbied foreign governments to ease restrictions on tobacco sales, Jacob...
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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...
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Deep in the brain may lie the secret of why some smokers quit easily and some find it nearly impossible
When a person tries to quit smoking, the cravings, headaches and lethargy that come from the nicotine withdrawal makes it near impossible for many to be successful. But this lack...
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Elementary-school students prompt Middlesboro smoking ban
UPDATE, May 20: The council passed the ban with one member opposing it. Gary Mills said, “I don’t think it’s the government’s right to intrude on businesses owned by individuals....