January 16, 2013 - 11:00am
If this year you have resolved to kick the tobacco habit, the Louisville Metro Health Department is here for you. For free, even.
When it comes to smoking rates, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows that KY is 49th in nature for tobacco usage and a little over 25% of adults over the age of 18 smokes cigarettes.Wow.If you are among this 25%, is one of your resolutions for 2013 to quit smoking?Or, do you have a...
June 8, 2011 - 4:50pm
Louisville's Health Department wants you to be afraid of second-hand smoke, so it makes up lies to convince you.
Louisville’s Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (LMDPHAW) is still peddling its favorite brand of junk science, and has posted a colorful brochure on its website, warning of the imagined dangers of second-hand smoke (called ETS, for Environmental Tobacco Smoke). Some of the...
July 29, 2012 - 7:57pm
I know this is an environmentally friendly festival, but there's such a thing as taking something too far.
"Smoking Lounge?" Would someone please explain why, at an outdoor festival where I can't escape the smell of Kentucky's most profitable cash crop, they have an indoor smoking lounge?
I know this is an environmentally friendly festival, but there's such a thing as taking something too...
