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Great American Smokeout is Thursday, Nov. 21, featuring supportive characters to share on social media and a Twitter chat
Draft plan for a statewide campaign for better health gets endorsement, much talk at Friedell Committee annual meeting
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cancer,
diabetes,
health rankings,
health status,
obesity,
prevention,
smoking,
tobacco
Smokers shouldn't get Medicaid or Medicare, says freshman Republican lawmaker who grows tobacco
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Medicaid,
Medicare,
smoking,
smoking ban,
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Indoor air study is background for smoking-ban discussion in Elliott; statewide ban sponsor is optimistic about a vote
Here are the basics of buying health insurance on the state exchange that opens Tuesday
On Tuesday, Americans can begin buying health insurance through state exchanges created by federal health reform. Journalists have spent mon...
Northern Kentucky health board supports statewide smoking ban
The main health board in Northern Kentucky, where local smoking bans have stirred much controversy. has endorsed the idea of a statewide ban...
Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit
State health-insurance exchange plans to make smokers pay 40 percent more for coverage; varied interests, observers object
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have touted its goal to provide health i...
Teen use of e-cigarettes doubles in past year but may equal nicotine patches in helping smokers to quit or cut back
Smokers, take note: Chinese meditation technique offers hope
In 2010, Kentucky had the second highest rate of adult smokers in the U.S., with 24.8 percent of the adult population -- or 1.1 million adul...
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addiction,
drugs,
health rankings,
rural health,
smoking,
tobacco,
tobacco prevention
10 years ago, Lexington's smoking ban started creating a healthier city and a movement among others in Kentucky
A decade ago, Lexington took a bold step by enacted the state's first public smoking ban, in a city that once proudly touted its status ...
U.S. adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent; when state rates come out, will Kentucky still have the country's highest?
Leaders in Mayfield, a town with a rich tobacco heritage, approve smoking ban
UPDATE, July 9: The ban passed 5-4 on second reading. It will take effect in 2014 and "excludes spaces used primarily for sleeping such...
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local government,
smoking,
smoking ban,
smoking bans,
smoking ordinances
Rural cancer survivors are less healthy than urban counterparts; 25 percent of rural cancer survivors smoke
Medicaid expansion would have 'a big health impact,' and critical-access hospitals need to change, rural-health expert says
U of L dean says $50 billion in annual health costs could be saved if Americans just walked more
Small changes in health behavior can have a huge impact on the public's overall health and well-being, and during National Public Health...
Survey finds employees pay greater share of health costs, and most large employers penalize them for using tobacco
Smoking ban gets 'a good scrubbing' before Judiciary Committee
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The bill for a statewide smoking ban is favored by three-fifths of Kentucky adults , but is dead for this s...
Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky's struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban
Gov. Steve Beshear endorsed a statewide smoking ban yesterday at a Frankfort rally to push the bill that would enact the ban. "Beshear,...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
