Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts
Kentucky 's spending of tobacco settlement on tobacco-prevention programs fall far short of what CDC recommends
As Ky., other states debate smoking bans, Ariz. county considers ban on hiring smokers, penalizing employees who smoke
Smoking bans for public places are still the subject of debate in Kentucky and many other places, but the Arizona county that contains Tucso...
Casey joins Adair and Russell as longtime tobacco counties where schools are going tobacco-free; Clinton defers action
Ky. Rural Health Association backs statewide smoking ban
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is asking Kentuckians to contact their legislators and advocate passage of a statewide smoking ban in...
Broad ban on use of tobacco on state property takes effect, except in Capitol and Annex, where law supersedes policy
"Despite a smoking ban and a tobacco-free campus policy starting Thursday for any of the more than 3,000 state buildings, legislative e...
African clinics to begin testing Ebola treatments; one made from tobacco in Kentucky isn't plentiful enough to be part of effort
Doctors Without Borders will begin testing three experimental therapies to treat Ebola in December, bypassing the traditional progression o...
Kentucky gets a $7 million grant to improve survival rates for lung cancer, in which it leads the nation
The University of Kentucky , the University of Louisville and the Lung Cancer Alliance have joined in a unique project called Kentucky LE...
Experimental drug being used to treat Ebola is being manufactured using special tobacco plants in Owensboro
A unique type of tobacco grown in Owensboro is used to manufacture the ZMapp compound that was given to two Americans who then survived Ebol...
Carroll County schools will make campuses tobacco-free in 2015, even including outdoor sporting events
The schools in Carroll County, once one of Kentucky's tobacco strongholds, have begun preparing students, parents, teachers and football...
Ky. newspapers support Beshear's expanded smoking ban for state-government sites, back statewide smoking ban
The Kentucky New Era in Hopkinsville stands firmly in favor of the executive order put in place last week to ban employees and visitors fro...
Study shows tailored advocacy for local smoking bans in rural Kentucky gets results
Local smoking bans are only possible if the community is ready for this change, Ellen Hahn, director of the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free P...
Beshear bans use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes on or near buildings and property the state owns or leases
Gov. Steve Beshear issued an executive order Sept, 4 that soon ban all tobacco products and e-cigarettes from more than 26.4 million square ...
Appalachian Kentucky has much of what it needs to improve its poor health status, key federal officials agree
Fayette County Board of Health wants to regulate electronic cigarettes, raising some questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategie...
University of Louisville gets $14.7 million federal grant to develop tobacco protein for HIV and AIDS prevention
Smoking-ban supporters on 'Road to a Healthier Kentucky Tour' next week to rally support for the 2015 legislative session
Smoking among Kentucky youth dropped by one-fourth from 2011 to 2013, biennial CDC survey determines
