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University Of Nevada-Reno to Go Smoke Free In 2015

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Monday, April 14, 2014   

RENO, Nev. – The University of Nevada-Reno is adopting a tobacco-free policy that will go into effect next year.

Enid Jennings, a health educator with the university, says the no-tobacco policy will take effect August 1, 2015.

She says the university will spend the next year educating students and staff about the policy.

"And that gives us time to provide lots of education to the campus community – incoming students, current students, faculty, staff, visitors to campus, in every way possible," she explains.

Jennings says the policy bans all forms of tobacco and also electronic cigarettes.

Current rules permit tobacco use on campus, but restrict it within 25 feet of any building.

Jennings adds that research shows that operating a tobacco-free campus helps smokers quit and stop others from starting the deadly habit.

"And it reduces the number of people who go from that social smoking, which is common among the college population, to established smoking,” she adds. “So it just creates that environment, that not only prevents tobacco use, but can also initiate a quit-attempt for someone who does use tobacco."

Jennings points out research shows that just 5 percent of University of Nevada-Reno students report being daily tobacco users.

She says the numbers are low despite Nevada having a higher-than-average smoking rate compared with other states.

According to the state Department of Health and Human Services, Nevada had the nation's ninth highest adult smoking rate in a recent year.





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