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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

American Cancer Society

Cancer Action Network

 

American Heart Association American Stroke Association

 

American Lung Association

 

Baptist Health

 

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

 

Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky

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Humana

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Kentucky Cancer Foundation

 

Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy

 

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

 

Kentucky Council of Churches

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Kentucky Equal Justice Center

 

Kentucky Health Collaborative

 

Kentucky Health Departments Association

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Kentucky Hospital Association

 

Kentucky Medical Association

 

Kentucky Nurses Association

  

Kentucky Voices for Health

 

Kentucky Youth Advocates

Contact the Coalition

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Toll Free: 877-326-2583

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info@smokefreetomorrow.org

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