Eastern Michigan University students, staff, and visitors will have to leave campus to use tobacco starting next summer.
The Board of Regents today approved a campus-wide ban on tobacco use starting in July.
Student Body President Desmond Miller says delaying the start of the ban allows the university time to prepare people for the change. "So important to have cessation programs and other programs and make availability of nicotine packs and gum and things like that. So people who do smoke don't feel like they're being targeted by any means," Miller says.
Currently tobacco use is prohibited within 25 feet of campus buildings. Enforcement of the current ban has been challenging because it is often difficult to determine exactly where smoking is prohibited.
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