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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 begins to give the public more time to adjust to the new rule, reports the...
- Kenton County Schools Ban Use Of Tobacco
The Kenton County Board of Education voted unanimously March 2 to approve a smoke-free policy immediately prohibiting the use of tobacco on school property, in board-owned vehicles and on school-related trips. ?We have a responsibility to model healthy...
- Casey Joins Adair And Russell As Longtime Tobacco Counties Where Schools Are Going Tobacco-free; Clinton Defers Action
The schools in another longtime tobacco county in Southern Kentucky are going tobacco-free. With only one member in opposition, the Casey County Board of Education recently enacted a tobacco-free school policy beginning with the 2015-16 academic...
- 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 fans for smoke-free school campuses starting July 1, 2015. "This ban will apply on district property at all times,...
- 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 that schools are already tobacco-free,...
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Another Kentucky school district goes tobacco-free and e-cigarette free; efforts largely led by students in Webster County
The Webster County school board voted unanimously May 26 to make all district property, vehicles and buildings officially tobacco-free, Matt Hughes reports for the Webster County Journal-Enterprise. As in some other school districts, efforts for the ban were largely led by students.
?This is something the Youth Experiencing Success Youth Council has been working on for years,? said board member Mickey Dunbar, who has worked closely with Youth Empowerment Services. ?I think it is very important that we educate our students' minds and educate them about their bodies.?
The ban will go into effect July 1 and includes all tobacco products, including vapor devices, commonly known as e-cigarettes. It also extends to school-sponsored trips, all sporting events and all school functions.
?I will enjoy being able to walk out of a basketball game without having to navigate a gauntlet of cigarette smoke,? Dunbar told Hughes. ?I think this will set a good precedence for the other schools in our area.? Webster County is in the West Kentucky Coalfield.
The YES Youth Council and its adult sponsor first approached the board last fall, and said that while supportive, the board voiced concerns that the community would not be supportive, especially during ballgames. But since then, Hughes said, board members "have gotten a lot of positive feedback from the community."
As of May 2015, Kentucky reported 40 tobacco-free school districts, which include 500 individual schools, according to the Tobacco Free Schools Kentucky website. This amounts to 40 percent of Kentucky's students.
?This is something the Youth Experiencing Success Youth Council has been working on for years,? said board member Mickey Dunbar, who has worked closely with Youth Empowerment Services. ?I think it is very important that we educate our students' minds and educate them about their bodies.?
?I will enjoy being able to walk out of a basketball game without having to navigate a gauntlet of cigarette smoke,? Dunbar told Hughes. ?I think this will set a good precedence for the other schools in our area.? Webster County is in the West Kentucky Coalfield.
The YES Youth Council and its adult sponsor first approached the board last fall, and said that while supportive, the board voiced concerns that the community would not be supportive, especially during ballgames. But since then, Hughes said, board members "have gotten a lot of positive feedback from the community."
As of May 2015, Kentucky reported 40 tobacco-free school districts, which include 500 individual schools, according to the Tobacco Free Schools Kentucky website. This amounts to 40 percent of Kentucky's students.
- 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 begins to give the public more time to adjust to the new rule, reports the...
- Kenton County Schools Ban Use Of Tobacco
The Kenton County Board of Education voted unanimously March 2 to approve a smoke-free policy immediately prohibiting the use of tobacco on school property, in board-owned vehicles and on school-related trips. ?We have a responsibility to model healthy...
- Casey Joins Adair And Russell As Longtime Tobacco Counties Where Schools Are Going Tobacco-free; Clinton Defers Action
The schools in another longtime tobacco county in Southern Kentucky are going tobacco-free. With only one member in opposition, the Casey County Board of Education recently enacted a tobacco-free school policy beginning with the 2015-16 academic...
- 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 fans for smoke-free school campuses starting July 1, 2015. "This ban will apply on district property at all times,...
- 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 that schools are already tobacco-free,...