Hopkins County

Total Population, 2010
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=1

308,745,538 4,339,367 46,920
Percent of Adults who Smoke, 2007-2009
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=6

* Data for counties with fewer than 50 respondents have been suppressed.

N/A 26% 21%
Percent of High School Students who Smoke, 2007
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=38

23% 25% 25%
Percent of Births to Mothers who Smoked During Pregnancy, 2009
USA Kentucky Hopkins

KIDS COUNT Data Center: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/Rankings.aspx?state=KY&ind=3809

*Data for 2007-2009 are preliminary.

N/A 24% 31%
Percent of Adults with Asthma, 2007-2009
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=48

* Data for counties with fewer than 50 respondents have been suppressed. 

N/A 14% 16%
Heart Disease Death Rate (per 100,000), 2003-2007
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=56

N/A 224.0 239.2
Cancer Death Rate (per 100,000), 2004-2008
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=16

N/A 211.6 215.8
Lung/Bronchus Cancer Death Rate (per 100,000), 2004-2008
USA Kentucky Hopkins

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=16

N/A 75.1 80.2
Oral Cavity & Pharynx Cancer Incidence Rate (per 100,000), 2004-2008
USA Kentucky Hopkins

National Cancer Institute: http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/quickprofiles/profile.pl?21&003#incidence

* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 cases were reported in a specific area-sex-race category.

10.8 12.3 11.7

Hopkins County Ordinance

Type of Law: Partial. All enclosed public places that allow persons under age 18 to enter.

Where Smoking is Not Prohibited: Any enclosed public place that does not allow persons over the age of 18; independently ventilated enclosed public areas where persons under 18 are not allowed to enter; private clubs when not used for a function to which the general public is invited; hotel and motel rooms designated as smoking rooms; private residences, except when used as a childcare, adult day care, or health care facility. Restaurants, hotel and motel conference or meeting rooms, and public and private assembly rooms while these places are being used for private functions.

Link to Ordinance: www.mc.uky.edu/tobaccopolicy/Ordinances/ActualOrdinances/HopkinsCountyOrdinance.pdf

Source:www.mc.uky.edu/tobaccopolicy/Ordinances/Reports/Hopkins.html

History
02/03/2009

Enactment and Implementation of Partial County Ordinance

01/05/2009

Preliminary Injunction denied by Judge

12/17/2008

Adoption of Amended Comprehensive Board of Health Regulation

10/12/2008

Implementation of Initial Partial Board of Health Regulation

10/06/2008

Lawsuit filed by two business owners

08/13/2008

Adoption of Initial Partial Board of Health Regulation

08/05/2008

First Reading of Initial Board of Health Regulation

05/08/13

Health Department to Offer Smoking Cessation Classes

SURFKENTUCKY.COM| KEVIN HALL |MAY 8, 2013 The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department is offering another round of classes designed to help people stop smoking.

10/02/11

Legislator’s Log – Tobacco Use is not as Popular in Kentucky as it was Just 11 Years Ago

JOURNAL ENTERPRISE | REPRESENTATIVE BRENT YONTS | OCTOBER 2, 2011 | More than a third of Kentucky adults smoked in 2000, or 30.5 percent, according to the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Today the state estimates the percentage of adult smokers in the state is 24.8 percent.

09/28/11

Judge’s Ruling On Smoking Ban Could Have Local Impact

THE RICHMOND REGISTER | KELLY McKENNEY | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 | A ruling made earlier this month by a Bullitt Circuit judge could have implications for communities across the state, including Madison County. Judge Rodney Burress overturned a county-wide indoor smoking ban, saying the county board of health had no constitutional authority to enact the prohibition it passed March 23.