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More than a quarter of adult Kansans say they don’t have any of five major behavioral risk factors for chronic disease, but the picture isn’t so rosy for…
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Business and health leaders on Thursday announced an ambitious initiative to convince elected officials in the dozens of municipalities throughout the…
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A study to be published in an upcoming issue of JAMA Pediatrics is the first to find a causal link between young people using e-cigarettes and then moving…
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Erica Anderson, a health promotion specialist for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, likes to tell a story about a woman who came to one of…
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When it took effect five years ago, the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act had some restaurant and business owners concerned.But their worries about the state…
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A coalition of health organizations is supporting Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s call for a big increase in the state’s cigarette tax.Brownback is proposing…
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A business-led group based in Kansas City, Mo., is leading an effort to quadruple Missouri’s lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax and direct the proceeds to…
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New health rankings show Kansas stuck at No. 27 among the 50 states, the same slot it occupied last year. But there was a time – not that long ago – when…
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States continue to spend a miniscule portion of the billions of dollars they collect annually in tobacco revenues on smoking prevention and cessation…
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Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week show that between 2005 and 2013, the percentage of U.S. adults who smoked…
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One of Missouri's largest employers will no longer hire nicotine users.As of January 1, 2015, MU Health Care, the five-hospital University of Missouri…
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Call them e-cigarettes, vapes, e-juices or e-liquids. Just don’t call them tobacco.Early last Thursday, Missouri legislators overwhelmingly overrode the…