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• A tobacco-free campus is healthier for all of us—students, employees and visitors.
• A 100% smoke or tobacco-free policy promotes a culture of health and well-being on campus by:
  • preventing young adults from starting tobacco use
  • eliminating secondhand smoke exposure and
  • making it easier for smokers to quit and
  • reducing cigarette and vape litter, maintenance costs and the risk of fire.
• Research shows that secondhand smoke exposure may have a negative impact on academic performance.
• Tobacco-free policies also prepare students for the workforce as an increasing number of worksites prohibit the use of tobacco.
• A college or university is not just an educational institution, it can serve as a home and/or workplace for educators, administrators, and students.
• Research shows that smoke-free campuses that have treatment services for smokers result in an increase in attempts to quit smoking.
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Faced with declines in cigarette use – the dropped from nearly 23% in 2000 to an  of 2.3% in 2021 – the industry has expanded its product offerings to include flashy e-cigarettes, flavored nicotine-containing products such as , and the heated tobacco device IQOS, dramatically changing the product landscape. Companies have also begun to use – created in a laboratory and not derived from tobacco – raising regulatory challenges and health concerns. Meanwhile, combustible cigarettes are still marketed aggressively with trillions consumed each year around the world.

Tobacco/vape-free communities contribute to creating a future where and nicotine addiction are things of the past and provide important protection from secondhand smoke exposure, which causes thousands of premature deaths each year. 

Tobacco-free communities are also especially important for those that serve populations disproportionately affected by tobacco — including people in low-income communities, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ individuals, women, youth, members of the military and those with mental illness — who have a long and documented history of being targeted by the tobacco industry.

More than 42% of the U.S. population remains unprotected by comprehensive smoke-free laws, with only 28 states and territories that have enacted such policies. In addition to supporting these policies, we are helping create tobacco/vape-free communities in many ways, including teaming with minority-serving academic institutions, community colleges and women’s colleges to help them address smoking, vaping and tobacco use in all forms through our tobacco/vape-free College Program, calling on pharmacies to stop selling tobacco and supporting Tobacco 21 policies that raise the legal age to purchase tobacco, to name just a few.

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1) Sign up for “This is Quitting” from truth by texting DITCHVAPE to 88709. It’s a first-of-its-kind, free text message program to help students quit vaping nicotine. 

2) BecomeAnEX is a free, digital quit-smoking plan and online community of thousands of smokers and ex-smokers developed by Truth Initiative in collaboration with Mayo Clinic. Visit BecomeAnEX.org to learn more. 

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