COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University is being asked to go smoke free.
OSU President E. Gordon Gee will ask trustees in April to ban smoking and the use of other tobacco products throughout campus by August 1, 2013.
Gee sent an email to students, faculty and staff this morning, saying the university had met with 26 groups representing faculty, staff, students and adjacent neighborhoods. The group received feedback through emails and community forums.
âThe majority of the feedback supported a tobacco-free campus and helped shape our current proposal,â Gee said in the letter. âWe also will appoint a broadly represented committee to develop an implementation plan and submit a resolution to the Board of Trustees in April to request authority to revise the university's current smoke free policy.â
OSU Wexner Medical Center and surrounding health science campuses have been tobacco free since 2006, and the buildings on the campuses have been smoke free since 1987.
OSU President E. Gordon Gee will ask trustees in April to ban smoking and the use of other tobacco products throughout campus by August 1, 2013.
Gee sent an email to students, faculty and staff this morning, saying the university had met with 26 groups representing faculty, staff, students and adjacent neighborhoods. The group received feedback through emails and community forums.
âThe majority of the feedback supported a tobacco-free campus and helped shape our current proposal,â Gee said in the letter. âWe also will appoint a broadly represented committee to develop an implementation plan and submit a resolution to the Board of Trustees in April to request authority to revise the university's current smoke free policy.â
OSU Wexner Medical Center and surrounding health science campuses have been tobacco free since 2006, and the buildings on the campuses have been smoke free since 1987.
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