Future Action Item
ACTION ITEM #7 WSU Pullman, Tobacco and Nicotine Free Campus (Olivia Yang/Dwight Hagihara) TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS SUBJECT: WSU Pullman, Tobacco and Nicotine Free Campus PROPOSED: That the Board of Regents adopt WAC chapter 504-38. SUBMITTED BY: Olivia Yang, Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration SUPPORTING INFORMATION: During the 2014 spring semester, the WSU Pullman undergraduate students held a public forum and passed a referendum supporting a WSU Pullman tobacco free campus. Currently, RCW 70.160 prohibits smoking in public places and workplaces and requires that smoking occur 25 feet from entrances, exits, windows, and air intakes. After the referendum passed, President Floyd formed a WSU Pullman Tobacco Free Advisory Task Force (TFATF) that included representatives from the undergraduate students, graduate and professional students, faculty, Administrative Professional Advisory Council (APAC), Health and Wellness Services, Environmental Health and Safety, International Programs, Athletics, Student Affairs, Attorney General’s Office, WSU News, Real Estate and Local Relations, Public Safety, Human Resource Services, Facilities Services, and Procedures Records and Forms. The TFATF was asked to research how many universities are tobacco/nicotine free and to build on the feedback collected by the undergraduates by gathering additional feedback from graduate/professional students and employees. From its research, the TFATF determined there are 1,514 smoke free campuses, with approximately 67% (1,014) of these campuses tobacco free (Attachment A). The TFATF also determined that five of the PAC-12 universities are tobacco free (Attachment B). During the 2014-15 academic year, WSU Pullman employees and graduate/professional students were surveyed.
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