New Tobacco-Free Campus Guide from the NSRA

The Non-Smokers' Rights Association (NSRA) has recently developed a Tobacco-Free Campus Guide. The aim of this guide is to help students, faculty, and staff increase support for the creation or improvement of tobacco-free measures at post-secondary institutions.

Using a selection of the best examples from colleges and universities in Canada and elsewhere, the guide outlines how to develop, implement, and support a comprehensive tobacco-free campus, including:

• Protection from second-hand smoke and a ban on the use of all forms of tobacco except within designated smoking areas (DSAs), and if feasible, everywhere on campus;
• An end to all forms of tobacco sales and promotion on campus;
• An ethically and socially responsible mandatory standard or core principle that ensures that the institution, its staff, and students are not financially or materially associated through the institution with the tobacco industry.

A copy of the report can be found here.