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Are Kentucky Cigarette Prices to Blame for Smoking Rates?

Oct 13, 2016

Research

The following appeared on 89.3 WFPL, Louisville's NPR News Station, on October 11, 2016. By Lisa Gillespie Ten months after completing a smoking cessation class, Terrence Silver started smoking cigarettes again. It was his first attempt at quitting after smoking for 40 years. His biggest motivation to quit: cost. “That was the primary reason I was going to quit, the money,” Silver said. “It wasn’t health, wasn’t that I didn’t like it. It was the money.”

Are Kentucky Cigarette Prices to Blame for Smoking Rates?

By: Lisa Gillespie

Oct 13, 2016

BREATHE

Ten months after completing a smoking cessation class, Terrence Silver started smoking cigarettes again. It was his first attempt at quitting after smoking for 40 years. His biggest motivation to quit: cost. “That was the primary reason I was going to quit, the money,” Silver said. “It wasn’t health, wasn’t that I didn’t like it. It was the money.” Silver lives across the river in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where the tax on cigarettes is 99 cents per pack. So he comes to Kentucky to buy his cigarettes, where the tax is 60 cents.

College of Nursing Student, Alumna Receive Lyman T. Johnson Constituency Group Torch Bearer and Torch of Excellence Awards

Oct 10, 2016

Recognition

College of Nursing alumna LaJava Chenault, MSN, RN, receives the Torch of Excellence Award. The University of Kentucky Alumni Association’s Lyman T. Johnson Constituency Group awarded undergraduate nursing student Simone Curd and alumna LaJava Chenault, MSN, RN, the Torch Bearer and Torch of Excellence Awards at its 26th Annual Homecoming Awards Celebration on Oct. 7 at the UK Alumni House.

Professor and Nurse Researcher Receives University of Louisville 2016 Florence Nightingale Award

Oct 5, 2016

Faculty Recognition

The University of Louisville School of Nursing will honor UK College of Nursing Professor Deborah Reed, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAOHN, FAAN, as well as five other nurses in Kentucky and Southern Indiana with the 2016 Florence Nightingale Awards for their dedication to improving the lives of patients, the community and the profession.

Assistant Professor Works with Patients with Mental Illness to Create Tailored Tobacco Treatment Program

Sep 29, 2016

Research

Assistant Professor Chizimuzo (Zim) Okoli, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN, picked up his first and last cigarette when he was just six years old – a mistake that landed him in the emergency room but inspired his life’s work to study mental illness and substance use among marginalized and underrepresented populations.

E-Cigarettes Not Safe During Pregnancy

Sep 26, 2016

Research

E-cigarettes are increasingly popular, and adult women of childbearing age are the most common users. This is especially true in Kentucky, which has the country's second highest rate of smoking during pregnancy. Many women try to quit or reduce their smoking while pregnant, and may turn to e-cigs under the belief that they are safer or harmless during pregnancy. But are e-cigs and other electronic smoking products safe for an unborn child?

College of Nursing Holds Annual Scholarship Brunch

Sep 26, 2016

Events, Recognition

The UK College of Nursing held its annual Scholarship Brunch on Sept. 10 in the Hyatt Regency ballroom to celebrate 2016-2017 scholarship recipients and honor their donors for making these scholarship possible.

BREATHE Faculty and Staff Members to Serve as Panelists on Secondhand Exposure Public Forum

By: Phillip M. Bailey

Sep 23, 2016

Mayor Greg Fischer is ready to start a public conversation on Louisville banning electronic cigarettes and hookah five months after he first raised the idea. Fischer’s office announced a community educational forum will take place Wednesday to discuss the possibility of expanding the city's smoking ban. The move comes almost a decade after the city first enacted a comprehensive law forbidding the use of tobacco products in all indoor public spaces and workplaces.

Associate Professor Receives Ohio State University College of Nursing Mildred E. Newton Distinguished Educator Award

Sep 22, 2016

Faculty Recognition

The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Nursing recently honored UK College of Nursing Associate Professor and PhD Program Director Susan Frazier, PhD, RN, FAHA, with the Mildred E. Newton Distinguished Educator Award.

UK College of Nursing Welcomes Back Colonel Marla De Jong for Second Annual Nursing Leadership Lecture Series

Sep 15, 2016

Seminars, Lectures

A 2005 PhD graduate from the UK College of Nursing, Colonel Marla De Jong, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN, will be the first of three prestigious speakers to present at this year’s annual Nursing Leadership Lectureship Series. Her presentation, “Advancing Nursing Science through Leadership and Knowledge,” will take place on Thurs., Oct. 6 at 4 p.m. in the UK Hospital Pavilion A auditorium.

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