Palmer, ALASKA—The Alaska Job Corps Center campus is now tobacco-free. The policy went into effect July 1, 2013. The Alaska Job Corps Center is the second campus in Alaska to join the Fresh Air Campus Challenge after Iḷisaġvik College in Barrow made the commitment last month. The regional challenge is a first-of-its-kind effort to encourage all college campuses in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington to adopt a 100 percent smokefree or tobacco-free policy by 2016.
By joining the challenge, Job Corps is committing to conduct at least two activities by the end of 2013 that assist them in implementing their tobacco-free campus policy.
“We are proud to join the Fresh Air Campus Challenge,” said Job Corps Center Director, Malyn Smith. “Our goal is to provide the healthiest possible learning and working environment for our students, staff and visitors, and limiting the harmful effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke is one of the best ways to do that.”
The challenge brings together local, state and federal tobacco control programs in a unique partnership with college campuses to begin the process of policy adoption.
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