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Widener Goes Smoke-Free

No tobacco use allowed indoors or out

By TERESA MASTERSON

Updated 11:15 AM EDT, Tue, Jan 5, 2010

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Widener University will be the first area four-year college to go smoke-free, indoors and out, reports the Inquirer.

The smoking ban includes the use of all tobacco products on campus.

The decision to go tobacco-free came about by recommendations of a committee made up of students, faculty and staff who were concerned about health effects of second-hand smoke and increased health insurance costs for smokers and chewers.

To make the July 1 ban an easier transition for faculty and students, the university is offering free smoking-cessation classes as well as nicotine-replacement drugs.

Many local community colleges already have bans on tobacco use on campus, and hundreds of colleges nationwide have done the same, including the Universities of Michigan, Florida and Kentucky, according to the Inquirer.

First Published: Jan 5, 2010 10:55 AM EDT

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Have you ever had to carry out an infant or a whole family killed by careless smoking?"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396494_80703872","adminTags":null,"views":6,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Widener Goes Smoke-Free","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3152370,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"5 Jan 2010 17:31:39 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1511885","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Um, all the the campuses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher (passhe.edu) went smoke-free (inside and outside) last year. It's a joke. How can you keep people from smoking all around campus?<br /><br />http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/smokefreecollegesuniversities.pdf"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396494_80703872","adminTags":null,"views":6,"createdBy":19137942,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Widener Goes Smoke-Free","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3152370,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"5 Jan 2010 19:51:44 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"JDub28","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1513125","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Good luck with the enforcement."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396494_80703872","adminTags":null,"views":6,"createdBy":9251286,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Widener Goes Smoke-Free","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3152370,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"5 Jan 2010 19:55:12 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"JPS1","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1513158","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"PJHORREX: "... this growing trend of banning people from smoking outdoors where it bothers no one is outrageous."<br /><br />Not quite so, PJHORREX.<br />A non-smoker must run the gauntlet of smokers congregating right outside doorways. There, they concentrate the smoke to levels that would trigger indoor smoke alarms.<br /><br />"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396494_80703872","adminTags":null,"views":6,"createdBy":18315628,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Widener Goes Smoke-Free","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3152370,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"5 Jan 2010 22:05:37 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"sprice","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1514192","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"I have been a non-smoker since Nov. 10. Prior to that, I spent a lot of time finding a place outside to smoke. Sometimes it was in a doorway, sometimes not. <br /><br />I can understand banning smoking indoors. But a complete ban of smoking outdoors is going above and beyond. Designate outdoor areas for smokers - just like at CB park (by the way a bench or two would be nice). It's not that hard to do. Believe it or not, smokers have rights too."}],"error":"","totPages":1}

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