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- 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...
- Burgin, In Heart Of Kentucky, Is State's 40th School District To Go Tobacco-free; Ban, Won By Students, Applies To Vapor Products
Burgin Independent Schools, in the heart of Kentucky, will be the latest 100 percent tobacco-free schools in the state, and the first in Mercer County, which has a strong tobacco heritage. The Burgin Board of Education voted April 8 to ban all tobacco...
- 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,...
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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 behavior for students,? Supt. Terri Cox-Cruey told the Community Press and Recorder. "Jess Dykes, director of public relations and community engagement, said the request for the district to become smoke-free came from Gov. Steve Beshear," reporter Melissa Stewart writes. "The governor has requested all school districts to consider the policy change."
Dykes said Kenton County joins six other Northern Kentucky school districts with a smoking ban: Grant County, Beechwood, Dayton, Carroll County, Gallatin County and Williamstown.
?We have a responsibility to model healthy behavior for students,? Supt. Terri Cox-Cruey told the Community Press and Recorder. "Jess Dykes, director of public relations and community engagement, said the request for the district to become smoke-free came from Gov. Steve Beshear," reporter Melissa Stewart writes. "The governor has requested all school districts to consider the policy change."
Dykes said Kenton County joins six other Northern Kentucky school districts with a smoking ban: Grant County, Beechwood, Dayton, Carroll County, Gallatin County and Williamstown.
- 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...
- Burgin, In Heart Of Kentucky, Is State's 40th School District To Go Tobacco-free; Ban, Won By Students, Applies To Vapor Products
Burgin Independent Schools, in the heart of Kentucky, will be the latest 100 percent tobacco-free schools in the state, and the first in Mercer County, which has a strong tobacco heritage. The Burgin Board of Education voted April 8 to ban all tobacco...
- 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,...