<p>U Oregon sent a message that they are becoming a smoke-free campus (not just inside buildings). Intrigued, I found this list of other smoke-free campuses:</p>
<p>Not sure how enforceable it is, but interesting they are going that direction.</p>
<p>Hospital “campuses” are smoke free now in my state, it’s why you don’t see employees hanging out right by the doors smoking anymore.</p>
<p>My business is smoke free, I don’t even let anyone smoke in the parking lot, around the company vehicles, etc.</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo has a huge campus. Of course no one has smoked inside in years, but now they are attempting to make the whole campus smoke free, even inside cars in the parking lots. It’s not that well enforced outside, but you don’t really have groups of people standing around smoking like before. Personally, I think it’s a bit overboard (this from someone who detests the habit).</p>
<p>I go to Michigan. It’s not enforced.</p>
<p>Happykid’s community college is smoke free, and yes the professors and staff hike to the edge of campus just like the kids do for their smoke breaks. You can tell where the “border” is by the cigarette butts.</p>
<p>I like the idea of having a few designated outdoor smoking areas that don’t have wind blowing the smoke back onto campus. </p>
<p>I think it would be hard to make an entire residential campus smoke-free because students who smoke wouldn’t likely cooperate. </p>
<p>Frankly, it saddens me to see young people smoke. They’ve grown up hearing/knowing the dangers, yet they’ll still do it. 
(and, dang!! It’s expensive to smoke!)</p>
<p>Ha! Maybe have a few designated smoking areas, but those areas should each have a wall that features large, full-color pictures of lung damage and other smoking-related health and cost issues.</p>
<p>"Maybe have a few designated smoking areas, but those areas should each have a wall that features large, full-color pictures of lung damage and other smoking-related health and cost issues. "</p>
<p>^^ Now THIS is one terrific idea! ^^</p>
<p>Our nearby big teaching hospital is a smoke-free campus. However, I know one little hidden area outside that smokers go to, and nobody bothers them.</p>
<p>We could designate one city, and all smokers have to move there to live. Or just put them all in smoker’s prison.</p>
<p>The early 2000’s are going to be looked back upon as the Intolerant Era. Americans just crab about everyone else. We complain about rich people, poor people, teachers, public employees, big businesses, smokers, fat people, cell phone users, young people, old people, EVERYBODY, and EVERYTHING. I think the terrible economy is making us very irritable.</p>
<p>I have a problem with smoking because it AFFECTS me. Overweight people, rich people, poor people, et al do NOT pose a problem for me because they are not comtaminating the air I breathe. That is the difference.</p>
<p>Yes, yes, I know. I think smoking stinks also, and it is unhealthy. But really, how far away do smokers have to go? Now we’re saying they can’t smoke outside, or even in their own homes. I think it is getting out of hand.</p>
<p>And, believe me, the people who complain about all those other groups have theories about how their misbehaviors affect others too.</p>
<p>Are there fiscal reasons, as well as health, to declare a campus smoke-free? For example, I wonder if it’s a custodial burden to clean up butts (that was said oddly) tossed outdoors; or cope with the fire hazards created in outdoor trash containers. </p>
<p>Certainly there’s reason enough based on health or aesthetics, but I wonder if it doesn’t also save money for the college when it extends a smoking ban to the outdoors.</p>
<p>I think there should be designated smoking areas. Expecting everyone to comply with a completely smoke-free campus is pobably going to backfire. If there is absolutely no place smoking is allowed, they will most likely have people sneaking cigarettes in the more hidden places like dorms/bathrooms.</p>
<p>One or two spaces where smoking is allowed on campus would give those who like to smoke a place to feely do so, while those who are smoke-intolerant can simply avoid those places.</p>
<p>University of Maine now states they are a tobacco free campus on their umaine dot edu webpage.</p>
<p>The University of Florida’s main campus in Gainesville has been 100% smoke-free (in theory) since 2010. I’m sure some people break the rule, but I’ve never seen or smelled smoke anywhere while visiting.</p>
<p>This discussion has made me remember an experience where I used to work. People were very busy in our office. Lots of times when I needed a quick conference with an important person, I would be invited to go outside and stand with them while they smoked. So, many of my most important business discussions occurred outside on the loading dock, freezing. Lol.</p>
<p>Pennsylvania had some of it’s state colleges go smoke free a few years ago, but it was overturned: [Each</a> Pa. college has own policy on smoking - Philly.com](<a href=“Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes”>Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes) I don’t know of any businesses that allow it. I don’t think it should be allowed at colleges.</p>
<p>Lots of smoke-free schools in California. Thank goodness.</p>
<p>I think it’s a pretty risky move for colleges trying to attract foreign students to come out as tobacco-free. Smoking rates are MUCH higher in European and Asian countries. Oregon did the right thing by coupling the announcement with information and support for kicking the habit, but all things being equal I suspect that many foreign smokers will choose campuses that don’t have a non smoking policy.</p>
<p>As long as smoking is legal, I think that it is unfair to ban smoking on public property. As long as colleges accept government funding, they should not be allowed to ban smoking entirely. There is a compelling case to ban smoking indoors even on public property, but I don’t agree with the ban all over campus.</p>
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<p>So where does it stop? In Illinois you can’t smoke at an elementary school. What about hospitals and other medical buildings?</p>
<p>Personally I’d like to see smoking be outlawed completely, but we know that will not happen.</p>