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Total Population, 2010
USA Kentucky Scott

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=1
308,745,538 4,339,367 47,173
Percent of Adults who Smoke, 2007-2009
USA Kentucky Scott

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% 18%
Percent of High School Students who Smoke, 2007
USA Kentucky Scott

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=38
23% 25% 22%
Percent of Births to Mothers who Smoked During Pregnancy, 2009
USA Kentucky Scott

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% 20%
Percent of Adults with Asthma, 2007-2009
USA Kentucky Scott

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% 19%
Heart Disease Death Rate (per 100,000), 2003-2007
USA Kentucky Scott

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=56
N/A 224.0 202.7
Cancer Death Rate (per 100,000), 2004-2008
USA Kentucky Scott

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=16
N/A 211.6 195.9
Lung/Bronchus Cancer Death Rate (per 100,000), 2004-2008
USA Kentucky Scott

Kentucky Health Facts: http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/data/topic/show.aspx?ind=16
N/A 75.1 67.7
Oral Cavity & Pharynx Cancer Incidence Rate (per 100,000), 2004-2008
USA Kentucky Scott

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 13.3

Georgetown, KY City Ordinance

Type of Law: 100% Smoke-free Workplaces and Enclosed Public Places. All enclosed public places and places of employment including seating areas of all outdoor arenas.

Exemptions: Buildings leased or owned by local government pursuant to KRS 61.165; private residences (except when used a licensed day care or health facility); designated hotel and motel smoking room; retail tobacco stores; private clubs with no employees

Link to Ordinance: www.mc.uky.edu/tobaccopolicy/Ordinances/Reports/Georgetown.html

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

History
10/01/2005

Implementation Date

06/16/2005

Ordinance Enactment Date

06/02/2005

First Reading

11/21/11

Smoke-free Advocates in Bourbon Push for Smoking Ban

HERALD-LEADER | GREG KOCHER | NOVEMBER 21, 2011 | As cigarettes dangled from their mouths, Rodney Harney and Chuck Newberry played a friendly game of nine ball in Bluegrass Billiards. Over the pulsing beat of back-to-back Grand Funk Railroad hits I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home and Some Kind of Wonderful, they talked about the prospect of a smoking ban that appears likely to be proposed for Bourbon County next year.

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.

03/28/11

Study: Second-hand smoke polluting Rowan County air

THE MOREHEAD NEWS | CNHI | MARCH 25, 2011 | Workers and patrons in Rowan County hospitality venues outside city limits are being exposed to harmful levels of second-hand smoke. That was the conclusion of a study conducted at seven hospitality venues outside Morehead city limits where there is an existing smoke-free ordinance.