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Sen. Mitch McConnell proposed to raise the age for purchase of tobacco products. (Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Legislation would raise tobacco purchasing age

April 25, 2019

Cady Stribling Staff writer [email protected] Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced a proposal for legislation to change the purchasing...

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Feeling the Burn

September 25, 2015

Story by Jessica Bostick, Assistant News Editor Employees that smoke can expect to pay an extra $600 in premium costs. This rise in cost is...

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Cody Barger, junior from Huntington, Tennessee, vapes.

Cessation class offered for students looking to quit

September 4, 2015

Story by Ashley Traylor, Contributing writer Murray State officially became a tobacco-free campus this August, a change on campus that came along...

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Davies holds meeting on new ban

January 23, 2015

President Bob Davies emphasized the University’s wellness goals involved in the tobacco-free policy during a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. ...

Other universities have rough ban start

January 23, 2015

Are you thinking about lighting up on campus? Think again. In an effort to emphasize health and wellness, the Board of Regents voted to make Murray...

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A student sits outside of Faculty Hall between classes. Students, faculty and staff can’t smoke on the side of the building that faces 16th Street.

NO MORE SMOKE

September 19, 2014

In light of Gov. Steve Beshear’s recent executive order banning smoking on government property, the University’s potential to instill a smoking...

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Toby Monts, freshman from Murray, puffs on an e-cigarette indoors. Monts only smokes e-cigarettes occasionally because he said they do not have the same effect as a regular cigarette.

Up in smoke

November 15, 2013

According to many college students, tobacco products are harmful and not as socially acceptable as they once were, but what if someone picked up an...

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