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Rutgers Senate hopes to create a ‘smoke-free’ campus (Nicholas Simon, The Daily Targum)

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The Student Affairs Committee (SAC) at Rutgers University is reexamining the school’s on-campus smoking policy, hoping to one day evolve into a smoke-free campus. The SAC was instructed in 2013 to examine the desirability, feasibility, and impact of what it means to shift to a smoke-free campus. The SAC has been conducting research regarding the issue since its initial charge to investigate and its most recent findings revealed that 8 out the 14 universities in the Big 10 were smoke-free schools, according to the response. There are plans to revise the language in the initial response, the SAC hopes to set forth with this next semester.

Read the full Daily Targum article here.