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- State-property Smoking Ban Seems To Cut Share Of Smokers In Executive Branch, More Than Other Employees In State Health Plan
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State-government moves against smoking have reduced it among Executive Branch employees at a greater rate than among state employees who were not affected by Gov. Steve Beshear's order that banned smoking on...
- Smoking Ban Upsets Some State Workers; Entrepreneur Starts A Van To Take Some Off Human Resources Campus To Smoke
Cigarettes and all other tobacco products, as well as e-cigarettes, are no longer allowed on most state property, both indoors and outside, and some state workers aren't happy about it, Jack Brammer reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Under...
- 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 employees working at the Capitol Annex can still light up without a write-up," Brad Bowman reports for The State Journal...
- 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 from using all tobacco products in most state government buildings, says a recent editorial, republished by the...
- Tobacco Is Top Target In Beshear's Health Plans, But He Still Praises Expansion Of Plant That Makes Smokeless Tobacco
Gov. Steve Beshear says tobacco is the main cause of Kentuckians' relatively poor health, which he is pushing to improve, but on Feb. 27 "his tone shifted as he praised the economic benefits from a tobacco company's plans to expand its Western...
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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 feet of executive branch buildings and grounds on Nov. 20.
All executive-branch buildings are smoke-free inside, but the new ban extends to the use of all tobacco products and e-cigarettes in state-owned or -leased buildings, in state-owned vehicles and on state property.
?Tobacco products have a deadly grip on thousands of Kentuckians. Smoking and tobacco use are the single-biggest causes of preventable illness and death in our state,? Beshear said in a news release. ?This policy will protect non-smokers from the effects of secondhand smoke and encourage tobacco users to seek help in quitting.?
Kentucky is only the fifth state to institute such a policy. The release notes that more than 28 percent of adults smoke, leading to 8,000 Kentucky deaths each year from tobacco-related illnesses.
Susan Zepeda, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, said Beshear's move "sends a clear signal that Kentucky is serious about curbing the negative health consequences of smoking, and committed to improving the health of Kentuckians,? said Zepeda. She noted that polls have shown a clear majority of Kentucky adults favor a statewide smoking ban.
The release from Beshear's office said expanding tobacco-free policies to more executive-branch property is aimed at helping achieve his kyhealthnow goal of reducing smoking rates by 10 percent by 2019. Beshear supports a statewide smoking ban and
Amy Barkley, Chair of Smoke-free Kentucky, said in the release, ?We are hopeful that this policy will motivate the legislature to pass a comprehensive, statewide, smoke-free law that will protect the rest of Kentucky workers from secondhand smoke exposure in all other indoor workplaces.?
More information about the policy, as well as links to tools to stop tobacco use, are available at http://tobacco-free.ky.gov.
All executive-branch buildings are smoke-free inside, but the new ban extends to the use of all tobacco products and e-cigarettes in state-owned or -leased buildings, in state-owned vehicles and on state property.
?Tobacco products have a deadly grip on thousands of Kentuckians. Smoking and tobacco use are the single-biggest causes of preventable illness and death in our state,? Beshear said in a news release. ?This policy will protect non-smokers from the effects of secondhand smoke and encourage tobacco users to seek help in quitting.?
Susan Zepeda, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, said Beshear's move "sends a clear signal that Kentucky is serious about curbing the negative health consequences of smoking, and committed to improving the health of Kentuckians,? said Zepeda. She noted that polls have shown a clear majority of Kentucky adults favor a statewide smoking ban.
More information about the policy, as well as links to tools to stop tobacco use, are available at http://tobacco-free.ky.gov.
- State-property Smoking Ban Seems To Cut Share Of Smokers In Executive Branch, More Than Other Employees In State Health Plan
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State-government moves against smoking have reduced it among Executive Branch employees at a greater rate than among state employees who were not affected by Gov. Steve Beshear's order that banned smoking on...
- Smoking Ban Upsets Some State Workers; Entrepreneur Starts A Van To Take Some Off Human Resources Campus To Smoke
Cigarettes and all other tobacco products, as well as e-cigarettes, are no longer allowed on most state property, both indoors and outside, and some state workers aren't happy about it, Jack Brammer reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Under...
- 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 employees working at the Capitol Annex can still light up without a write-up," Brad Bowman reports for The State Journal...
- 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 from using all tobacco products in most state government buildings, says a recent editorial, republished by the...
- Tobacco Is Top Target In Beshear's Health Plans, But He Still Praises Expansion Of Plant That Makes Smokeless Tobacco
Gov. Steve Beshear says tobacco is the main cause of Kentuckians' relatively poor health, which he is pushing to improve, but on Feb. 27 "his tone shifted as he praised the economic benefits from a tobacco company's plans to expand its Western...