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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 hitting Kentucky media outlets this week, as the legislature convenes, and next week. The campaign was launched by Smoke-Free Kentucky Coalition, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The newspaper ad can viewed here.
Twenty-nine percent of Kentucky adults are smokers, giving the state the highest smoking rate in the U.S., and ranks very high in youth smoking, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Kentucky also has the nation's highest lung cancer death rates, 87 percent of which are caused by smoking, according to the National Cancer Institute. The state also "lags behind other states in enacting a comprehensive, statewide smoke-free law that covers all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants," a press release about the ad campaign says. Twenty-four states have smoking bans. A fall poll for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky showed that 59 percent of Kentucky adults support a smoking ban in workplaces, restaurants and bars. For a story on the poll, click here.
Tobacco-Free Kids communications manager Catherine Butsch said the ad is running in the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Messenger-Inquirer of Owensboro, the Daily Independent of Ashland, the Commonwealth Journal of Somerset, the Kentucky New Era of Hopkinsville, the Glasgow Daily Times, the Paducah Sun, the Paducah-based West Kentucky News, the Sentinel-Echo of London, the Lebanon Enterprise, the Jessamine Journal, the Tompkinsville News, the Carlisle Weekly of Bardwell, the Fulton Leader, the Marshall County Tribune Courier, and the Kentucky Gazette, a government-oriented twice-monthly in Frankfort. The online ad will run on websites of the Herald-Leader, Business Lexington, The Lane Report and CN2, a cable news service. The campaign will cost $93,000, Butsch said.
Twenty-nine percent of Kentucky adults are smokers, giving the state the highest smoking rate in the U.S., and ranks very high in youth smoking, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Kentucky also has the nation's highest lung cancer death rates, 87 percent of which are caused by smoking, according to the National Cancer Institute. The state also "lags behind other states in enacting a comprehensive, statewide smoke-free law that covers all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants," a press release about the ad campaign says. Twenty-four states have smoking bans. A fall poll for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky showed that 59 percent of Kentucky adults support a smoking ban in workplaces, restaurants and bars. For a story on the poll, click here.
Tobacco-Free Kids communications manager Catherine Butsch said the ad is running in the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Messenger-Inquirer of Owensboro, the Daily Independent of Ashland, the Commonwealth Journal of Somerset, the Kentucky New Era of Hopkinsville, the Glasgow Daily Times, the Paducah Sun, the Paducah-based West Kentucky News, the Sentinel-Echo of London, the Lebanon Enterprise, the Jessamine Journal, the Tompkinsville News, the Carlisle Weekly of Bardwell, the Fulton Leader, the Marshall County Tribune Courier, and the Kentucky Gazette, a government-oriented twice-monthly in Frankfort. The online ad will run on websites of the Herald-Leader, Business Lexington, The Lane Report and CN2, a cable news service. The campaign will cost $93,000, Butsch said.
- Kentucky 's Spending Of Tobacco Settlement On Tobacco-prevention Programs Fall Far Short Of What Cdc Recommends
Kentucky ranks 39th in the country in funding programs that prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report from a coalition of public-health organizations. Kentucky ranks sixth in high-school smoking in the 2013 Centers...
- Smoking-ban Supporters On 'road To A Healthier Kentucky Tour' Next Week To Rally Support For The 2015 Legislative Session
The Smoke-Free Kentucky Coalition is kicking off its 2015 campaign to rally support for comprehensive, statewide smoke-free laws on its "Road to a Healthier Kentucky" Tour, from Monday, July 28 to Saturday, August 2. The tour plans to make at least 10...
- Columnist Responds To Poll On Smoking Ban; He, Another Foe And Two Advocates Will Debate It On Ket's 'kentucky Tonight'
Jim Waters of the Bluegrass Institute, which bills itself as "Kentucky's free-market think tank," sees "reasonable doubt" in the recent Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky poll that found two out of three Kentuckians favor a statewide ban on smoking...
- Kentucky Spends Less Than A Penny Of Its Tobacco-settlement Money On Prevention Programs; Few States Do Very Much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs, only 3.7 percent of the amount recommended by the federal Centers...
- Statewide Smoking Ban Proposed In Legislature
State Rep. Susan Westrom of Lexington, left, announced her intent to file a bill today that calls for a statewide smoking ban, which would prohibit cigarette use in workplaces, restaurants, bars and private clubs. The Courier-Journal's Laura Ungar...