Clearing the Smoke: Kentucky’s Lingering Tobacco Habit
A tobacco barn in Magoffin County near the Mountain Parkway displays what once would have been an unlikely message for any rural Kentucky community: “Quit Now Kentucky. For help quitting smoking, 1-800-quit-now, www.quitnowkentucky.org.”
Farm owner Sheila Salyer acknowledges the irony. “Its history has been raising tobacco,” she said.
On KET’s Health Three60: Clearing the Smoke, Abbie Conley, tobacco coordinator for the Magoffin County Health Department, recalled how tobacco production brought farm families together...
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