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martes, 6 de agosto de 2013

times-news.com - EEUU - 6 de Agosto de 2013

Allegany College going tobacco, nicotine free
Ban includes parking lots, student apartment complex; takes effect Aug. 19
CUMBERLAND — Beginning this fall semester, Allegany College of Maryland will welcome students, employees and visitors to a tobacco-free environment where smoking and tobacco use in all forms are prohibited at all of its campuses, centers and sites.
The policy will be effective Aug. 19 and covers tobacco and nicotine in all its forms, including cigarettes, cigars and pipes, smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes.
The only exceptions to the policy are smoking and tobacco-cessation products such as nicotine patches, gum or physician-prescribed medications.
The ban applies to locations owned, operated or managed by the college, and extends throughout, including parking lots and vehicles, lawns and fields.
ACM, which has long prohibited indoor smoking, last, updated its tobacco-use policy in 2008, when it moved smoking away from the entrances of buildings to parking areas and cars.

The tobacco-use ban extends to Willowbrook Woods, where smoking had previously been allowed on balconies of the student apartment complex.

The ACM Board of Trustees adopted the more stringent policy upon the recommendation of college faculty and staff members with input from student representatives.

Primary factors in recommending it include the health and welfare of individuals at ACM facilities in support of a college commitment to promote healthy lifestyles.
In addition to encouraging better personal and public health, the policy underscores the college’s substantial role in educating allied health professionals through its many allied health programs.
Anyone who needs assistance to break a tobacco habit may contact the local health department.
Students and visitors to ACM facilities will be alerted of the policy by various means, including posters, fliers and other printed information, announcements at new-student orientation sessions and by electronic media, such as messages to student email accounts.
More information about the policy forbidding smoking and tobacco use on college properties is available on the ACM website, www.allegany.edu.
Frostburg State University went smoke-free Aug. 1, 2011.
According to April Baer, director of student wellness, e-cigarettes do not violate the smoke-free campus policy, but professors may address their use in classes and on-campus residents may discuss the device with their roommates. 
Baer said, “e-cigarettes are a newer smoking cessation tool, and we are awaiting further research and information on the topic before it is addressed formally in policy.”

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