Kentucky has one of the nation’s highest rates of new lung cancer cases. Cigarette smoking is linked to 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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FRANKFORT — In a year when the American Cancer Society asked the Kentucky legislature to increase spending on tobacco prevention, lawmakers cut it and passed an anti-vaping bill that some say could increase cigarette use in the state.
The two-year state budget’s allocation for tobacco prevention — about $8 million shy of advocates’ ask — “certainly is not†enough to combat use in the state, said Doug Hogan, the government relations director in Kentucky for the American Cancer Society and the Cancer Action Network.
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Only vaping products authorized or pending action by the federal Food and Drug Administration can be sold in Kentucky under a new law that takes effect Jan. 1.
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