Changes: Tobacco growers see little impact from FDA rules; big tobacco town banning smoking

The Food and Drug Administration issued tobacco regulations yesterday "nearly identical" to those fought by tobacco interests and struck down by the Supreme Court in the 1990s, Jim Carroll reports for The Courier-Journal. Now the rules are backed by federal law and drawing no fire from tobacco growers, who say the effect on them would be "very minimal," illustrating the huge transformation of the tobacco business in the past decade. (Read more) So does the coming adoption of a smoking ban by the main town in one of Kentucky's biggest tobacco counties. Glasgow would be the first Southern Kentucky town with such a ban, reports Robyn L. Minor of the Bowling Green Daily News. (Read more)