The number of youth who will use vaping products is on the rise across the nation, but particularly in Kentucky, and a foundation is looking to knock down those numbers.
Former Louisville mayor and former congressman Ben Chandler is the director of the Foundation For a Healthy Kentucky, and made a visit to Hopkinsville Thursday as he spreads the message of making a healthier state. He says a big thing the foundation is focused on currently is vaping, with the number of high schoolers and middle schoolers who use those products jumping drastically recently.
He says that, along with spreading information about the dangers of vaping to students, the foundation has worked to help create smoke-free school campuses across the state and has pushed for federal regulations.
Chandler says the Foundation For a Healthy Kentucky is devoted to exactly that—spreading awareness and advocating for efforts that help Kentuckians be healthier.
Christian County Public Schools is one of the many school system who will have smoke-free campuses, and Chandler was in Hopkinsville to congratulate them for the move and provide them with signage. He says that Kentucky is ranked consistently as being one of the state with the highest cancer rates, and they hope that by spreading information about the dangers of nicotine, they can lower those rates.