Our Health Matters salute to the tobacco barns of Eastern Kentucky includes information on sex toy injuries, testosterone and mandates. But we also discuss Kentucky’s forward-looking initiative on prescription narcotics and contrast this with our incredible lack of vision on smoking cessation.
Tip: the individual mandate requires every US citizen to obtain insurance or pay a tax penalty. Unfortunately, enrollment for 2015 has closed and those who remain without insurance face penalties on their 2014 and 2015 taxes.
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Calculate your tax penalty for failing to purchase insurance, here
FDA oversight dampens the corporate exuberance for testosterone products
