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RCCC seeks tobacco-free campuses 

Jump to full article: Concord & Kannapolis (NC) Independent Tribune (NC), 2010-01-27
Author: Jessica Groover * Independent Tribune

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CONCORD — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College campuses will be tobacco-free, effective Aug. 1. Its board of trustees unanimously approved a new tobacco-free campus policy at its meeting at the Cabarrus Business and Technology Center on Monday.

As a result, all tobacco products, including cigarettes, pipes and chewing tobacco, will be prohibited.

"We want to encourage people to be tobacco-free," said RCCC President Carol Spalding. This conversation has been an ongoing one, though, board members said.

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