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SCF campus may move to go tobacco-free  

BRADENTON -- The local community college campus may be going smoke-free.

Lars Hafner, president of State College of Florida, told board members Monday that students had been talking to him about the possibility of a tobacco-free campus.

At SCF's Venice campus, students recently held a forum about the matter, he told the board.

"Down in Venice, they've started to aggressively pursue that," he said. "It's a student-driven initiative."

If student groups formally seek a change in the college's policies, it would fall to the Board of Trustees to decide the issue, Hafner said. If the board voted to ban tobacco, it would apply to the Bradenton campus as well as those in Lakewood Ranch and Venice, he said.

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