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Smoking Banned Campus Wide At Some Oregon Colleges 

Smoking is banned inside virtually every public building in the Northwest. Now, students and staff at two Oregon community colleges won't be able to light up anywhere on campus -- not even outside or in their cars.

Salem Correspondent Chris Lehman has more on what could be the next wave of anti-smoking policies. . . .

But the new policies go too far, says one smokers' rights group.

George Koodray of The Smokers Club says the argument that second-hand smoke is harmful is irrelevant if someone is smoking by themselves inside their car:

George Koodray: "This is simply a policy now of incredible intolerance for a legal activity of which there is no perceivable adverse impact on anyone else."

But Oregon Coast Community College President Pat O'Connor says there are other issues besides second-hand smoke.

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