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University officials hold first public forum on smoke-free campus initiative 

Jump to full article: Michigan Daily [U. of Michigan], 2009-11-12
Author: Elyana Twiggs Daily Staff Reporter

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University officials held the first public forum last night to discuss the University’s decision to make campus entirely smoke free by July 2011.

Ken Warner, dean of the School of Public Health, told students, faculty and community members that the University will be going “cold turkey” when it comes to smoking on campus.

Warner spoke in Palmer Commons as part of a presentation from the Smoke-Free University Initiative, which aimed to announce formally the University’s plan to ban smoking on campus. According to presenters, this informational session is just the beginning of the “implementation process.”

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