Tagged: tobacco

The Columbia Chamber of Commerce board of directors has formally endorsed Proposition B, a measure on the November ballot that would raise in the state’s tobacco sales rate to 90 cents per pack. 

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri's first female chancellor is Cheryl B. Schrader
• House passes budget caps
• Missouri tries to tax cigarettes
• Medicinal cannabis activists arrested

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri gets 'F' for tobacco control policies, in new report from American Lung Association

• FDA challenging the use of antibiotics in animals

• MO chief justice wants to shrink prison

Missouri has one of the highest smoking rates in the nation -- at 21 percent, it's double the rate in states like Utah and California. But some segments of the population smoke even more. In this week's Health & Wealth update, I talk with MU researchers who have found that the smoking rate among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Missourians is much higher than in the population at large.