Jump to full article: West Virginia Public Broadcasting WVPB, 2010-03-18
Author: Ryan Tegeder, WVU School of Journalism
Intro: West Virginia University is looking at peer institutions to see how those schools have implemented campus-wide smoking bans.
The University of Kentucky, Oklahoma State University, University of New Mexico and University of Florida all have smoking bans in place.
All four of these universities are land grant institutions.
"That is one thing we know we have in common with them already," said C.B. Wilson, the head of WVU's Smoking Task Force.
By looking at the policies of these institutions the task force hopes to learn several things.
"First we want to review and identify how these schools are alike or different from us," said Wilson.
The task force wants to see if it can use the other universities' policies as a template.
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