FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Tobacco companies have agreed to pay Kentucky more than $110 million to settle a 10-year legal battle over the state’s share of the tobacco master settlement agreement. In 1998, ...
According to the American Lung Association’s 24th annual “State of Tobacco Control” report, released today, Kentucky’s grades ...
Twenty years ago today, the quota system that guaranteed tobacco prices for U.S. farmers ended. Since then, tobacco farms in Kentucky have all but disappeared. Here's Lily Burris with member station ...
Jim Rumford knows the story by heart. He’s been hearing it since he was a boy—the one about the time his great grandpa, George Washington Kinney—Mr. Kinney, as Rumford calls him today—was awakened in ...
Many Kentuckians may be affected by the new vape ban that took effect Jan. 1, 2025. Only a select number of vape products that are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration are legal to purchase ...
Vaping products on display in a Kentucky store. Hundreds of Kentucky tobacco, nicotine and vape retailers seem likely to miss the Jan. 1 deadline to apply for a license that’s now required by a new ...
It's been 20 years since the tobacco quota, which guaranteed prices for the crop, was outlawed. Since then the number of farms growing tobacco in Kentucky has shrunk by 96%. Twenty years ago today, ...