Jump to full article: Johns Hopkins News-Letter, 2009-10-29
Author: Erich Reimur
Intro: Homewood is moving closer to becoming a smoke-free campus, thanks to the efforts of one student group.
Hopkins Kicks Butt (HKB) is currently attempting to convince administrators to institute a campus-wide smoking ban. Their proposal calls for a $15 fine for people caught smoking on campus.
HKB hopes to make the University completely smoke free by 2012.
The group, which is part of the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW), has been gathering signatures for roughly two years, although according to group President Sarah Durica, they have "only spent about 20 hours actually tabling and getting people to sign up."
"Our primary motivation for establishing a smoke-free campus is to reduce the community's exposure to harmful secondhand smoke," HKB said in the proposal it submitted to the administration about a year ago. . . .
HKB feels that tobacco is a serious problem at Hopkins.
"The smoking problems here at Hopkins is pretty potent . . . We have letters [of complaint] from students in different housing complexes, particularly in the AMRs . . . it's a major problem definitely," Preston Kramer, HKB's Policy Chair, said.
Hopkins Kicks Butt is involved in several other campaigns beside its effort to get a campus-wide smoking ban instituted.
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