Just two years ago it wasn't unusual to leave a Court Street bar with the distinct smell of cigarette smoke attached to your clothing and hair. For hundreds of schools across the country, smoking has not only vanished from the bars, but from the campus entirely.
In an effort to eliminate smoking by college students, more campuses are taking the extra step and banning smoking outdoors. However, implementing a policy is not a question of when, but a question of how it can be incorporated into campus life.
Terry Coons, associate director of Health Promotions at Ohio University said that no comprehensive smoking ban is on the horizon for Ohio University.
Smoking restrictions in public settings go back to when former Gov. George Voinovich implemented a ban on smoking in state-owned buildings, Coons said.-
Coons said. - said senior Lauren Wilson, a smoker who feels that a smoking ban is unnecessary. Smokers are willing to accommodate others who don't smoke by going outside. It's a personal choice.- it would be a hard policy to enforce ' a lot of wasted effort
Little said.
Coons said that the first step toward implementing this type of policy would be to identify areas of high smoking activity. He pointed to a Kent State-
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A growing number of colleges and universities are making an effort to eliminate smoking from their campuses, although OU has not announced plans to make campus grounds smoke-free.
