E-cig marketing finds a ready teenage audience, and preventive messaging isn't keeping up; risks of nicotine are largely forgotten

                                             Medscape photo By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News RICHMOND, Ky. -- Marketing messages for ...

Somerset doctor convicted of Medicaid fraud; sentenced to five years for falsifying smoking-cessation counseling sessions

Dr. Ezekiel Akande (Photo from Twitter ) A Pulaski County judge sentenced a Somerset doctor on Friday, April 21, to five years in prison for...

Anti-smoking expert: Cigarettes kill 8,900 Kentuckians a year, so it's time to raise cigarette tax and pass statewide smoking ban

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News "Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death that we know of," Ellen Hahn, direc...

Senate Health and Welfare Chair Julie Raque Adams, a Republican moderate from Louisville, had a banner session

Sen. Julie Raque Adams By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The term "public servant" comes to mind when state Sen. Julie Raque...

High-school students' research finds smokers are more likely to want to quit smoking after seeing their carbon monoxide levels

Taryn Kerley and Becca Calvert, Barren County High School seniors Cigarette smokers who saw their carbon monoxide levels rise after they smo...

Legislature passes bills to name caregivers, help smokers quit; could still pass dense-breast notice and student-concussion bills

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky lawmakers have passed bills this year to make sure someone knows how to ca...

Bill passes to decrease smoking; one doesn't; lawmakers set to pass resolution for feds to ditch plan to limit tobacco carcinogen

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Smoke-free advocates would say that this legislative session's record is 1-2. T...

Bill sent to Bevin would remove insurance-company barriers that keep Kentuckians from getting smoking-cessation treatments

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentuckians would have an easier time getting smoking-cessation treatments covered ...

Bill to make all Ky. schools tobacco-free is likely dead for this session; only 62 of the state's 173 school districts ban tobacco

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill that would ban tobacco use on school properties and at school events has al...

State Senate committee approves bill to remove insurance-company barriers to smoking-cessation treatments

Feb. 22 Update: SB89 passed 35-2 out of the full Senate and now heads to the House for consideration. March 14: SB89 passed 90-1 out of the ...