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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...
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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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?
Rural cancer survivors are less healthy than urban counterparts; 25 percent of rural cancer survivors smoke
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
Bill for statewide smoking ban appears to have been extinguished
The bill to enact a statewide smoking ban in Kentucky appears to be dead for this session of the General Assembly. The House sent House Bill...
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,...
Statewide smoking ban close to House vote, Stumbo says
For the second straight year, the state House Health and Welfare Committee has approved a bill that would ban smoking in enclosed public pla...
Health reform will let insurers charge smokers up to 50 percent higher premiums, which is likely to have a big impact in Kentucky
"Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance" because the health-care reform law will let health-insurance compan...
UK quickens drumbeat of tobacco-free policy through report line
The University of Kentucky promotes compliance and enforcement of its tobacco-free policy through a community report line, among many other...
Williamsburg in line to pass smoking ban next month
An ordinance imposing a smoking ban in Williamsburg is ready for a City Council vote. The council listened Monday to the first reading of th...
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Coalition of health groups launches two-week ad campaign to drum up support for a statewide smoking ban
A geographically targeted newspaper and online advertising campaign calling for "a comprehensive, statewide smoke-free law" is hit...
3 in 5 Kentucky adults favor a statewide smoking ban, according to an independent poll that may have oversampled smokers
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Court of Appeals panel rules 2-1 that county boards of health can pass smoking bans; appeal in Bullitt County case seems likely
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In Kentucky's first appellate-court ruling on the issue, the state Court of Appeals today upheld the Bu...
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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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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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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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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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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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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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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...
