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Mesa State smoking-policy options aired 

Mesa State College Associated Student Government members presented three potential tobacco policies Thursday evening in a campus lecture hall.

The first option bans all tobacco products, including chewing tobacco, cigars and menthol, clove or regular cigarettes, from campus property. Implementing the option would include a phase-in process with stages for education about the ban, a smoking-cessation program and then enforcement.

A second possibility is a ban of all tobacco products from all but a few designated smoking areas. These areas would have benches and ashtrays for smokers. Designated smoking areas have not been decided, but the option would place smoking areas roughly east of the academic classroom building, west of Houston Hall and in a parking lot north of the new student center.

The final option would entail doing a better job of enforcing the existing policy of keeping smokers at least 30 feet away from all building entrances.

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