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Jump to full article: WLEX 18 NBC (Lexington, KY), 2009-11-19
Intro: Smoking was officially snuffed out Thursday at the University of Kentucky with the start of a strict tobacco-free policy everywhere on the sprawling campus in the heart of burley tobacco country.
The ban includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.
Kentucky is the nation's leading producer of burley tobacco, an ingredient in cigarettes, and will keep plenty of ties to tobacco, even with the ban.
Its College of Agriculture offers production advice to tobacco growers and the school is home to a research center that is seeking new commercial uses for tobacco.
The new policy was welcomed by nonsmoker Kelly Stilz, a senior from Louisville.
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