FRANKFORT (AP) - Residents of one of the nation's top tobacco-producing states would be banned from smoking cigarettes in public places under a bill that has cleared its first legislative hurdle. The House Health and Welfare Committee voted 10-2 on Tuesday to stop people from lighting up inside workplaces, jails,... more »
SHEPHERDSVILLE (AP) - A judge has struck down a smoking ban four days before it went into effect, saying county health officials overstepped their authority in passing the measure. Bullitt County Circuit Judge Rodney Burress on Thursday ruled the ban void and unlawful. Burress said "that type of `Big Brother'... more »
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kenton County will be the first northern Kentucky county to ban smoking in most public places when a new ordinance takes effect on Friday.
The new ban, which includes restaurants, offices and churches, begins at 12:01 a.m.
Private clubs and some businesses that serve... more »
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A southern Kentucky city is on the cusp of passing a ban on smoking at most indoor businesses.
The Bowling Green City Commission will vote Monday on a second reading of an ordinance that would ban smoking at most indoor businesses in the city.... more »
FRANKFORT (AP) - A Kentucky lawmaker has started pushing for a comprehensive smoking ban in the state that leads the nation in burley tobacco production.
The bill seeks to impose a statewide smoking ban in all indoor workplaces and public places. The ban would apply to bars and restaurants.... more »
INDEPENDENCE, Ky. (AP) - Kenton County officials will take a final vote Tuesday on whether to ban smoking in public places. They are mulling the same ban that was approved last week in adjacent Campbell County. Kenton officials gave the ban preliminary approval earlier this month, but a second vote... more »
EDGEWOOD (AP) - A regional heath agency has signed onto a proposal to end indoor smoking in two northern Kentucky counties. The Northern Kentucky Health Department's District Board of Health voted Wednesday night to enforce such a ban if Campbell and Kenton county officials pass it. A member of the... more »
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A proposal to regulate indoor smoking in northern Kentucky is expected to come to a vote this summer. An advocacy group, Northern Kentucky Action, has been lobbying for a smoke-free law in Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties for more than two years. The Kentucky Enquirer reports... more »
Smoking was officially snuffed out Thursday at the University of Kentucky with the start of a strict tobacco-free policy everywhere on the sprawling campus in the heart of burley tobacco country. The ban includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes. Kentucky is... more »
