http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/category/colleges.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_9795975?source=rss http://tobacco.org/news/268318.html Local community college students have helped toughen up policies to restrict smoking at next month's San Mateo County Fair. A group of students from Skyline College in San Bruno and College of San Mateo known as the Smoke-Free San Mateo County Advocates worked with fair officials to prohibit smoking in the children's carnival area. San Mateo County Times Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_187003036 http://tobacco.org/news/268288.html Starting this week, students, faculty and staff on the Stillwater campus of Oklahoma State University will have to go off campus if they want to smoke. Tuesday was the first day of an entirely tobacco-free campus at OSU, but the University of Oklahoma doesn't look to be following suit in the near future. "There has not been a huge outcry (at OU) like there has been at other college campuses," said Kurt Davidson, OU Student Congress chair. The issue of whether OU should go tobacco-free like OSU was brought up in Student Congress in the spring, Davidson said, but it didn't even make it to the formality of a resolution. Norman Transcript Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thestate.com/movies/story/450530.html http://tobacco.org/news/268258.html "Why We Smoke," a documentary completed over two semesters by media arts students at USC, explores the many reasons smokers light up. Given a grant by the South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative, 14 undergraduate filmmakers set to work researching the subject of smoking and videotaping interviews with smokers, health and scientific professionals. Columbia State Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.decorahnews.com/cgi-bin/csvsearch.pl?mydatabase=db1&mytemplate=tp3&StoryID=2230&method=perfect http://tobacco.org/news/268196.html The Iowa Smokefree Air Act went into effect across the state on Tuesday. The new legislation means smoking is not permitted now on any and all Luther College property. The new law prohibits smoking inside all buildings, outside all buildings and on any college property. Specifically, smoking is prohibited in residence halls, in classrooms, in college cars and trucks, in parking lots and on athletic fields, tennis courts and all other outdoor areas at Luther. Decorah News Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080704-9999-1mc4smoke.html http://tobacco.org/news/268187.html Smokers may soon have fewer areas to light up at Palomar College in San Marcos. Officials are considering revising the community college's smoking policy so that smokers would be able to puff only in designated areas. It might mean, for example, that smokers would have to stay away from the clock tower, a popular spot on campus for a cigarette break. San Diego Union-Tribune jennifer.davies@uniontrib.com (Linda Lou UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER ) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cigarette-kiosks-throng-mumbais-smokefree-zones/68220-17.html http://tobacco.org/news/268176.html There are more than 5 million child smokers in India of whom 55,000 children use tobacco daily and the reason are cigarette vending shops which are flourishing right outside schools and colleges, blatantly flouting law. A student, Ashish (name changed to conceal identity) says, "Outside our college there is a cigarette shop which tempts us to smoke." However, law prohibits sale of tobacco within 100 yards of educational institutions. It also prohiits advertisements of tobacco products as is clear under the Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution Act 2003. A survey by Mumbai's Cancer Patients Aid Association claims that among children smokers, 60 per cent are boys and 47 per cent girls. For most of these children, the habbit started at the age of 14 years. College authorities in Mumbai meanwhile, lay the blame the BMC's apathy towards implementing the law. CNN-IBN editor@ibnlive.com (Shoaib Ahmed / CNN-IBN ) India Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_story_183204121.html http://tobacco.org/news/268097.html The Sisters of Providence have announced that their facilities and grounds at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College will become smoke-free and tobacco-free effective Sept. 1. The new policy will cover Woods Day Care/Pre-School and Providence Health Care. The policy pertains to all members of the congregation, staff, visitors, independent contractors and vendors. Terre Haute Tribune-Star Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080630/OPINION/806300311/1016/OPINION02 http://tobacco.org/news/268061.html Regarding "Bill calls lights out for dorm smokers," June 23 story: I'd like to personally thank Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, and Assemblyman Vincent Leibell, R-Patterson, for their leadership and tenacity in advancing a measure that will protect thousands of students on our college campuses, and I think I speak for many American Cancer Society volunteers who support this and other lifesaving tobacco-control efforts. New York Journal News Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080628/NEWS05/806280350 http://tobacco.org/news/268017.html On the smoking bill, the governor would have to sign it by Aug. 15 for it to take effect in the coming academic year. Thirty percent of colleges nationwide had prohibited smoking in dorms by 2007, according to the Center for a Tobacco Free New York. The State University of New York did so as of July 1, 2007, but the legislation would affect private schools as well. New York Journal News Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-07-01-0059.html http://tobacco.org/news/268000.html VCU has accepted research money from Philip Morris, which has the right to review any proposed publication. It's not alone in taking tobacco money -- Philip Morris last year gave $25 million to the University of Virginia. VCU, with its medical center and cancer-research facility, does not want to be "in bed" with a historically duplicitous industry that produces a public health hazard. I don't pretend to be impartial. Before his death in 1992, my father spent time at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals as a lung-cancer patient, blocks away from what would become the Philip Morris research and technology center in the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park. Richmond Times-Dispatch mwilliams@timesdispatch.com (MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS / TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-30-0045.html http://tobacco.org/news/267996.html I just received the print edition of the May 29 Times-Dispatch, in which I noticed an editorial about VCU and Philip Morris, "Not Enough Research." . . . This begs the question of why VCU itself has agreed to create a panel to investigate the matter. But more importantly, in my opinion, it enables VCU to set a bizarre standard of sorts, namely that as long as VCU isn't engaged in Philip Morris-funded research into safer cigarettes, then everything is hunky-dory. On the one hand, this could be interpreted as VCU's acknowledgment that such research would be pointless, absurd, or just plain wrong. But on the other hand, it condones the acceptance of most if not all other kinds of Philip Morris-funded research. This in turn calls to mind the matter of MCV's Institutional Review Board possible approval for human subjects research funded by Philip Morris. How utterly immoral such a situation would be. And just what might such subjects be agreeing to? To keep smoking throughout the experiment? Richmond Times-Dispatch webmaster@inrich.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/1099 http://tobacco.org/news/267991.html The UC Davis Health System will take an important step Tuesday, when smoking will finally be banned on the entire UCDHS campus. It is refreshing that a leader in local medical practices is making such a strong statement about smoking - finally. While the action itself is worthy of praise, one wishes it could have come sooner; several local hospitals have had such bans in place for several months, while others have had such restrictions for over a year. The California Aggie rhprocter@ucdavis.edu (RICHARD PROCTER) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/monday.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-30-0164.html http://tobacco.org/news/267982.html Controversies about former Richmond Police Chief Rodney D. Monroe's degree and a research agreement with Philip Morris USA warrant further scrutiny, Virginia Commonwealth University President Eugene P. Trani said last night. Trani said he was saddened by the two recent incidents that have brought the university unfavorable news coverage. . . . On the Philip Morris controversy, Trani said a task force he appointed will hold two open town-hall meetings in July. The meetings will be held on the MCV and Monroe Park campuses to discuss the university's relationship with outside companies. . . . VCU's task force will give Trani its report in October. He said he appointed the task force even though he believes the Times article "treated us unfairly." Richmond Times-Dispatch kkapsidelis@timesdispatch.com (KARIN KAPSIDELIS TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER ) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS/771801562 http://tobacco.org/news/267968.html People who don't know about the new smoking ban, especially visitors to campus, might be the biggest challenge in enforcement, UI officials said Tuesday, the law's first day. UI officials had planned a total campus smoking ban in July 2009, but that moved up one year with the state law. Cedar Rapids Gazette diane.heldt@gazettecommunications.com (Diane Heldt) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://ocolly.com/2008/07/02/osu-students-mixed-on-new-smoking-policy-administration-says-to-%E2%80%98breathe-easy%E2%80%99/ http://tobacco.org/news/267949.html OSU’s controversial tobacco ban has arrived. The ban went into effect yesterday after more than a year of discussion and planning. The Student Government Association, Faculty Council and Staff Advisory Council all recommended the campus tobacco-free. Signs adorned in the orange and black of OSU reading “breathe easy” and “Tobacco Free Campus” appeared on campus buildings as early as Monday and matching stickers adorn the doors to the inside of most buildings. The change makes OSU the first tobacco-free campus in the Big 12. . . . Mathematics professor David Ullrich said he has a condition called ulcerative colitis and that smoking actually helps. “About seven years ago I heard from my doctor that tobacco is actually good for this condition,” Ullrich said. “I started smoking at 45 years old.” Ullrich said he has noticed a positive impact on his body since he started smoking. “My insides are not supposed to look nearly as good as they do, given that I’ve had this condition for such a long time,” Ullrich said. “I’m smoking for my health.” The Daily O'Collegian Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT