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- Year Of Perseverance Pays Off For Advocates Of School Tobacco Ban In A County Where Raising Tobacco Was Long A Way Of Life
Clinton County in red (Wikipedia map)A year of perseverance, education and community input by the local and district health departments paid off as the Clinton County Board of Education voted July 20 to make its schools 100 percent tobacco free, reports the Clinton...
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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...
- Russell County School Board Makes All Campuses Tobacco-free, But Delays Implementation For One Year
The Russell County Board of Education has voted to make all the county's school campuses tobacco-free a year from now, "After some lengthy discussion by the board and visitors," The Times Journal of Russell Springs reports. The vote was 4-0, with...
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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, in all places and to all people, including at sporting events and inside vehicles," schools spokesman Carl Roberts writes for The News-Democrat in Carrollton. "The ban also will apply to electronic cigarettes. . . . The district is making every effort to inform students, staff and community members of the transition."
That includes signs, social media, print publications, district memos, and announcements at sporting events, Roberts writes. "At sporting events throughout this school year, cards will be distributed to spectators that provide information about the tobacco-free policy. The cards also will include information on smoking/tobacco cessation classes."
Only 35 of the state's 173 school districts are tobacco-free, but some others are planning to impose bans next year, and more may after this year's school-board elections are out of the way.
Carrollton, which once had several tobacco warehouses, was visited in 1998 by then-President Bill Clinton to explain what his administration wanted to about smoking and help tobacco farmers.
That includes signs, social media, print publications, district memos, and announcements at sporting events, Roberts writes. "At sporting events throughout this school year, cards will be distributed to spectators that provide information about the tobacco-free policy. The cards also will include information on smoking/tobacco cessation classes."
Only 35 of the state's 173 school districts are tobacco-free, but some others are planning to impose bans next year, and more may after this year's school-board elections are out of the way.
Carrollton, which once had several tobacco warehouses, was visited in 1998 by then-President Bill Clinton to explain what his administration wanted to about smoking and help tobacco farmers.
- Elizabethtown Schools Go Tobacco-free, Including E-cigs; Hardin County Follows Suit But Will Allow Smoking In Private Vehicles
Schools in Elizabethtown will be tobacco-free this year, and those in the surrounding Hardin County district will limit smoking to private vehicles in campuses, The News-Enterprise reports. The Elizabethtown policy ?will include e-cigarettes that have...
- Year Of Perseverance Pays Off For Advocates Of School Tobacco Ban In A County Where Raising Tobacco Was Long A Way Of Life
Clinton County in red (Wikipedia map)A year of perseverance, education and community input by the local and district health departments paid off as the Clinton County Board of Education voted July 20 to make its schools 100 percent tobacco free, reports the Clinton...
- 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...
- 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...
- Russell County School Board Makes All Campuses Tobacco-free, But Delays Implementation For One Year
The Russell County Board of Education has voted to make all the county's school campuses tobacco-free a year from now, "After some lengthy discussion by the board and visitors," The Times Journal of Russell Springs reports. The vote was 4-0, with...