CLEVELAND, Ohio - Anyone who lights up a cigarette outside a building at Cleveland State University today will be told politely and firmly to snuff out their butt because the entire campus is tobacco-free.
"Boo," said a man holding a cigarette in his car at a traffic light at Euclid Avenue and East 22nd Street Friday as Lisa Sandor, health and wellbeing administrator, pushed in a sign that said "CSU is tobacco free."
About 100 signs have been planted in grass throughout the 85-acre downtown campus. Buildings have banners and window stickers and outdoor cigarette receptacles have been removed.
A few classes began Saturday but fall semester begins today for the majority of students.
CSU likely is the first large public university in the state to prohibit all tobacco products, including chewing tobacco, on university property and in personal vehicles.
Many colleges in Ohio banned smoking in buildings even before a state law went into effect in 2007 that restricts smoking inside most public places and workplaces. But people have beuniveren allowed to smoke outdoors.
Officials at nearly all institutions are discussing or have taken action to ban tobacco throughout their campuses to avoid the wrath of the Ohio Board of Regents, which unanimously approved a resolution in July, 2012 asking trustees at two- and four-year campuses to prohibit all tobacco products.
Each college’s board of trustees has to create and adopt a policy on tobacco use. They differ on nearly every campus.
Ohio State University will become tobacco free on January 1. Miami University, which had banned smoking on campus prior to the regent’s vote, became tobacco free August 1, but will allow people to smoke in their personal vehicles until January 1.
Publicación original: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/08/cleveland_state_university_tob.html
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