In New Economic Divide, the Poor Smoke More. (The New York Times, 3/24/2014)
Curiously, the online headline was considerably changed. Smoking Proves Hard to Shake Among the Poor.
Clay County, Kentucky. Clay County, where just 7 percent of residents have a college degree and the poverty rate is double the nation’s, is trying. Manchester, the county seat, a small cluster of gas stations, municipal buildings and fast-food restaurants, banned smoking in restaurants, stores and bars in 2012. The hospital runs a smoking cessation program that offers free nicotine patches and gum in an effort to reach low-income smokers.
RED ALERT (2012 Presidential election results for Clay County)
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