Time Has Come to reduce Smoking Rates in Kentucky
Kentucky has both the highest cancer rate and the highest smoking rate in the nation. A diverse array of organizations and advocates have decided these statistics can no longer stand. They will join together at a news conference in Frankfort on Oct. 18 to launch a new Coalition that will advocate for polices to reduce smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke. Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow partners and members include health advocates, businesses, health care providers, educators, and faith-based organizations supporting a tobacco tax increase, smoke-free ordinances and tobacco cessation programs.
WHAT News conference to launch the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow, broad-based statewide alliance that will support state and local policy changes to improve Kentucky’s health by protecting Kentuckians from secondhand smoke and reducing tobacco use.
WHO
Ben Chandler, Chair, Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow and President/CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
Julie Raque Adams, Kentucky State Senator
Pat Withrow, Cardiologist and Director of Outreach for Baptist Health Paducah
Dave Adkisson, President/CEO, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
Jacob Steward, Sophomore, Bourbon County High School, Students Making a Community Change Youth Group youth speaker
Representatives of Coalition founding partners
WHEN
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 18, 2017
WHERE
Room 171, Capitol Annex Building, Frankfort, Kentucky