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Fighting to Breathe: Dr. Ellen Hahn on Smoking’s Impact on Kentucky

In this interview from KET’s Fighting to Breathe initiative, Renee Shaw interviews Ellen Hahn, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at the University of Kentucky and director of BREATHE and the Kentucky Center for Smoke Free Policy. Dr. Hahn discusses efforts to reduce high smoking and vaping rates in Kentucky and how those habits contribute to respiratory disease.

Fighting to Breathe is funded, in part, by grants from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and the Kentucky Medical Association through a grant from the Anthem Foundation.