Senators working to implement harsher on-campus restrictions; ban possible in future
Jump to full article: Daily Cougar (University of Houston), 2009-11-13
Author: David Haydon
Intro: Faculty, students and staff who smoke on campus face possible restrictions and enforcement -- ranging from the increased prohibition of smoking near building entrances to the possibility of a smoke-free campus -- from two Student Government Association senators.
"(Hotel and Restaurant Management Sen. Dennis) Ha is working on a smoke-free campus. I'm trying to get UH police to be stricter on smoking around buildings," Business Sen. Luis Rodriguez said. "I've been wanting to work on (legislation that) would have the UH police department give more citations."
Ha said he wants to make UH a smoke-free campus, but this will take some time.
"It's not the fact that people smoke, which is bad for their health, its (that) people who don't smoke have a problem," Ha said. "Our main objective will be a smoke-free campus, but you have to take it in small steps … we need to think about all the consequences if we take that away."
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights created a list of the colleges and universities around the country that enforce smoke-free air policies, stating that there are at least 365 campuses -- including 13 in Texas -- that are smoke-free.
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