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Lights out for dorm smokers  

All NYU residence halls will become smoke-free beginning next fall, housing officials said.

NYU will join the 612 colleges of the 950-member Association of College and University Housing Officers International that have banned smoking in residence halls. Many universities, like Harvard, Syracuse and all public universities in Florida, have already banned smoking in all university buildings.

Currently, the New York legislature is considering a bill to ban smoking at private and public colleges statewide, but schools like NYU, Syracuse and Ithaca have already decided to stop lighting up on campus.

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