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An Illinois senate committee has endorsed raising the age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21.The Senate Public Health Committee voted 6-2 Tuesday to send…
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A cancer care executive has told a legislative panel that smoking-related diseases are causing a higher death toll in Kentucky than the epidemic from…
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A state with one of the highest smoking rates in the country is paying farmers to paint anti-smoking messages on old tobacco barns. The program in…
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Last year, more than a thousand Ohio Valley farmers used a complicated federal visa program to hire some 8,000 foreign workers for seasonal jobs. Farmers…
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Workers on a tobacco farm in Garrard County, Kentucky have now been on strike for over two weeks. Benny Becker of the Ohio Valley ReSource reports the…
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With Kentucky struggling with health issues from lung cancer to opioid addiction, the president and CEO of Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky payed a visit…
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The Food and Drug Administration’s first proposed regulation related to smokeless tobacco is getting attention from agriculture and health officials in…
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An EU directive goes into force today, with new rules regulating the tobacco industry. The U.K. is going further: Cigarettes must now be sold in plain green packaging with graphic health warnings.
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A manufacturer of non-cigarette tobacco products is increasing its footprint in Owensboro. Swedish Match opened its new $3.5 million, 10,000-square...
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Tobacco has been double hit this year with rain and now bacterial disease. University of Kentucky’ Dark Tobacco Extension Specialist Andy Bailey says…