Groups Focus On Statewide Smoking Ban

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 29 percent of Kentucky adults smoke. Nationally, 19 percent of adults smoke. The Smoke-Free Kentucky Coalition, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are spending $93,000 to sponsor an advertising campaign urging Kentucky to go smoke-free. The groups say Kentucky has a lot to be proud of but not the large number of smokers or the lung cancer rates, and it needs a statewide smoking ban. House Speaker Greg Stumbo says he would support such a measure.