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Hopkinsville Mayor Pushes For Indoor Smoking Ban One Year After Bowling Green Enacts Similar Ordinance 

It's been a year since Bowling Green enacted an indoor smoking ban in public places like restaurants and workplaces. Now the Mayor of Hopkinsville wants to pass a similar ordinance there. Mayor Dan Kemp has has even modeled the proposed ordinance after the one in Bowling Green. WBKO's Elsa Bolt takes a look at how the ordinance has affected businesses in Bowling Green this past year.

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• HUBER: Tobacco from all nations excluded in trade pact 

At issue * April 2 commentary by Sen. Paul Hornback and Rep. Wilson Stone, "Plans to exclude tobacco from trade pact unfair to state."

The commentary that objected to the Herald-Leader's editorial board's support of the proposed carveout of tobacco from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as TPPA, contained misleading information that requires clarification.

Contrary to the implication in the commentary, a tobacco carveout would not apply exclusively to U.S. tobacco, let alone Kentucky tobacco.

TPPA removes tariffs and trade barriers that operate among the partnering countries. A tobacco carveout would apply equally to all tobacco within the TPPA free-trade zone. Removing tobacco from the agreement will not disadvantage U.S. or Kentucky tobacco relative to exports from other countries. It will simply leave tobacco products from all countries in the same competitive position they are in today.

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• Year later, smoking ordinance debate still smoldering 

It has been exactly one year since Bowling Green’s smoking ordinance went into effect, causing restaurants and bars in the city to put up their ashtrays and smokers at those establishments to put away their lighters.

The ordinance, which bans smoking at most private businesses in the city, went into effect on April 28, 2011.

A year later, the sponsor of the ordinance – Commissioner Brian “Slim” Nash – said opinions are still split on whether the ordinance was a good idea.

“While I believe a majority of people support it and a majority of people wanted it, I’m not so foolish as to try to deny that it’s controversial,” Nash said of the ordinance.

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State Specific Benefits: KENTUCKY 

The state's largest merchandise export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $6.6 billion of Kentucky's total merchandise exports in 2010. Other top merchandise exports are chemicals manufactures ($4.1 billion), machinery manufactures ($1.8 billion), computers and electronic products ($1.4 billion), and primary metals manufactures ($737 million).

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LETTER: Dictatorship community wants smoking ban in public places ($$) 

EDITORIAL: Our Opinion: Make noise to support public ban on smoking ($$) 

Smoking ban proposal ($$) 

LETTER Get behind city smoke-free law ($$) 

LETTER: Connecting newspaper dots in drugs, legislation, tobacco ($$) 

How ironic. The front page of the Friday paper features how Rep. John Tilley takes great pride in his legislation to control drugs, and the Oak Grove police raid the sellers of synthetic drugs and seize everything — and both of these lead stories surround a color picture of how we go to great pains to grow tobacco. Only in Kentucky and only in the New Era.

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Mayor to propose smoking ban  

Hopkinsville is the largest city left in Kentucky that has not banned smoking in public indoor places, Mayor Dan Kemp said.

Kemp wants to change this. On May 24, he will present a smoking ban ordinance to the city council.

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LETTER: More criticism for newspaper’s front-page tobacco photograph ($$) 

I’m writing in response to James Barone’s letter in Monday’s paper about the tobacco photograph on Page A1 of Friday’s paper. It’s a sad day when the tobacco industry is lauded while it is responsible for most of the respiratory diseases and all cancers. And sadly Kentuckians rank the highest in these!! Only in Kentucky and only in the New Era.

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Hopkinsville mayor proposes smoking ban ($$) 

Attorney General Conway Announces $101.7 Million in Tobacco Settlement Money 

Dark-fired main reason tobacco holding on in west Kentucky  

The smoking ban, a year later