Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Smoking Cigarettes and Voting Against Their Own Interests in Clay County, Kentucky

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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