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College to implement new smoking restrictions  

Based on a recent survey of Lone Star College-Kingwood students, faculty and employees and in light of new information about the increasing health risks of second-hand smoke, administrators have approved a new smoking ban policy to be implemented on campus. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, smoking will only be allowed in three designated smoking shelters, located by the parking lots where others will not have to be exposed to second-hand smoke.

“When our campus conducted its own smoking survey in September, almost 400 students and employees responded,” said LSC-Kingwood President Dr. Katherine Persson. “Eighty-three percent of the respondents indicated that second-hand smoke was a concern for them with 73 percent of the respondents concerned about long-term health effects. While the respondents’ preferred smoking policy is to ban smoking everywhere on the LSC-Kingwood campus, more indicated that the best policy for us is to allow smoking only in shelters built for that purpose.”

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