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[SLIDESHOW] Students, faculty light up to protest tobacco-ban  

Even on a UK men's basketball game day, the usual chants of students were altered in response to the tobacco-ban—"C-I-G-S, CIGS, CIGS, CIGS!"

Under clouds of smoke, more than 100 smokers and non-smokers gathered to protest the campus-wide tobacco ban UK implemented Thursday by continuously using tobacco products in front of Patterson Office Tower and on the Student Center patio.

The ban prohibits the use of cigarettes, pipes, cigars and chewing tobacco, and extends to all properties owned by the university in Fayette County.

“What are they going to do? Tell me that I can’t smoke?” said Robbie Moore

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