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- School Board In Henry County, Including Tobacco Farmers, Will Consider A Comprehensive Smoking Ban On Its Campuses
The Henry County school superintendent got a unanimous go-ahead from his board to present a draft policy to make the district 100 percent tobacco-free, but the board made no promises, Melissa Blankenship reports for the Henry County Local. Wikipedia...
- Fayette County Board Of Health Wants To Regulate Electronic Cigarettes, Raising Some Questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategies to inform people about their potential dangers, Mary Meehan writes for the Lexington Herald-Leader. This continues...
- 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...
- Uk Quickens Drumbeat Of Tobacco-free Policy Through Report Line
The University of Kentucky promotes compliance and enforcement of its tobacco-free policy through a community report line, among many other measures. Although the report line was established last spring, its mention in recent campus communications...
- Smoke-free Campuses Are A Growing Trend; Uk Volunteers Taking Action To Get Compliance With Ban Enacted Nearly Two Years Ago
This summer, Tobacco-free Take Action! volunteers at the University of Kentucky have been circling campus, asking students to put out their cigarettes while on school property. UK is one of about 530 U.S. colleges that have enacted smoke-free policies....
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Western Kentucky University will gradually become tobacco free; last public university in Kentucky to do so
Western Kentucky University will slowly go tobacco-free by 2018 through a phased-in approach, becoming the last public university in the state to do so, Lisa Autry reports for WKU Public Radio.
"Although I've never smoked, I know how addictive nicotine is, and I think it gives people the opportunity to get help with cessation and to change habits they need to change anyway," Cecilia Watkins, a WKU professor of public health who helped draft the policy, told Autry.
The new policy will begin in January, when WKU will decrease the number of designated smoking areas on its main Bowling Green campus to 12 from 48. It will continue to reduce the number of sites over the next three years until the campus is completely tobacco-free. The policy will also apply to electronic cigarettes, Autry reports.
"Although I've never smoked, I know how addictive nicotine is, and I think it gives people the opportunity to get help with cessation and to change habits they need to change anyway," Cecilia Watkins, a WKU professor of public health who helped draft the policy, told Autry.
The new policy will begin in January, when WKU will decrease the number of designated smoking areas on its main Bowling Green campus to 12 from 48. It will continue to reduce the number of sites over the next three years until the campus is completely tobacco-free. The policy will also apply to electronic cigarettes, Autry reports.
- School Board In Henry County, Including Tobacco Farmers, Will Consider A Comprehensive Smoking Ban On Its Campuses
The Henry County school superintendent got a unanimous go-ahead from his board to present a draft policy to make the district 100 percent tobacco-free, but the board made no promises, Melissa Blankenship reports for the Henry County Local. Wikipedia...
- Fayette County Board Of Health Wants To Regulate Electronic Cigarettes, Raising Some Questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategies to inform people about their potential dangers, Mary Meehan writes for the Lexington Herald-Leader. This continues...
- 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...
- Uk Quickens Drumbeat Of Tobacco-free Policy Through Report Line
The University of Kentucky promotes compliance and enforcement of its tobacco-free policy through a community report line, among many other measures. Although the report line was established last spring, its mention in recent campus communications...
- Smoke-free Campuses Are A Growing Trend; Uk Volunteers Taking Action To Get Compliance With Ban Enacted Nearly Two Years Ago
This summer, Tobacco-free Take Action! volunteers at the University of Kentucky have been circling campus, asking students to put out their cigarettes while on school property. UK is one of about 530 U.S. colleges that have enacted smoke-free policies....