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WU holding its breath for tobacco ban’s start  

While St. Louis County has passed Proposition N, Washington University is continuing to prepare for the implementation of its smoking ban.

Jill Carnaghi, associate vice chancellor for students and dean of campus life, and Student Union Senator Amy Heard, a junior, are co-chairing an undergraduate task force for a smoke-free campus. The task force is divided into four subcommittees—with one subcommittee working with athletes to implement the ban, another with international students, another with students in fraternities and sororities, and another with students living in Residential Life housing.

Carnaghi said she is aware of the differing student viewpoints about the smoking ban, but notes that the task force is involved not in actual decision-making but rather the implementation.

“We still don’t know how enforcement will work, but we think we’re getting closer with what we’d want to see in an ideal world,” Carnaghi said. “We’ll clearly be a tobacco-free campus by July 1, but we are working on how will we educate the community and really talk about raising the standards of individual responsibility.”

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