Eating, Drinking, and Smoking in College Facilities

Purpose:

To provide a safe, healthy and clean work and academic environment, improve indoor and outdoor air quality, and promote the comfort of students, faculty, staff, and guests.

Definitions:

e-cigarettes: a battery-powered device such as an electronic cigarette, electronic vaping device, personal vaporizer (PV), or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) which simulates cigarette or tobacco smoking.

Policy:

1. Smoking, exhaling, inhaling or spitting any substance, by any method, including but not limited to tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and aromatic smoking products, such as clove cigarettes, herbal cigarettes, etc., is prohibited:

   1. inside all college-owned and managed facilities
   2. in college-owned and leased vehicles;
   3. on college loading docks; and
   4. within twenty-five feet (25 ft.) of any college-owned or managed buildings.

2. Use of marijuana is prohibited on campus grounds.

3. Eating and drinking are prohibited in:

   1. instructional laboratories, unless exceptions are approved by the vice president of finance and administration or vice president of workforce development;
   2. computer laboratories;
   3. designated computer areas of all libraries; and
   4. the Jeanette S. Lipman Auditorium of the Massey Library Technology Center on the Parham Road Campus.

Procedures:

Other Information:

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