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Jump to full article: Charlotte (NC) Observer, 2008-07-28
Author: David Ingram and Nancy Wang
Intro: All of North Carolina's public schools will be tobacco-free by the end of this week, the culmination of a six-year effort by health advocates in the most tobacco-friendly of states.
Each of the state's 115 school systems will have a policy banning smoking and all other tobacco use - by anyone, at any time, anywhere on campus or at off-campus school events such as field trips and football games. . . .
The final holdouts did so this month to comply with state law requiring action by Aug. 1, making North Carolina one of only a handful of states where all public schools will be tobacco-free.
"North Carolina, being a tobacco state, is a beacon on this subject," said Joel Spivak of the Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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