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University sets tobacco-free date 

Jump to full article: Daily Lobo (UNM), 2009-04-08
Author: Donald Duran III

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UNM will go tobacco-free on Aug. 1.

That means no cigarettes and no chewing tobacco, except within designated smoking areas around campus, said Pug Burge, co-chairwoman of the Smoke Free Environment Committee.

The committee has presented its revised campus smoking policy to campus groups, including GPSA and ASUNM, Burge said.

After the campus groups review the policy changes, the paperwork will go out to the rest of the University for a 30-day review period, which will begin sometime in the middle of this month, she said.

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