A Tobacco Free Campus On 1-1-11

Brookdale Community College will be joining the growing ranks of colleges and universities prohibiting the use of tobacco on their campuses.  Here are a variety of links to sources related to this initiative:

Questions About Smoking, Tobacco and Health, from the American Cancer Society provides a 26 page informative general overview
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/002974-pdf.pdf

One Step At A Time To A Tobacco-Free Campus, a 40 page manual for colleges and universities
http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/pdf/joal.pdf

Taking Tobacco Out of Higher Education: A Tobacco-Free Policy Toolkit, a 68 page manual created by the California Youth Advocacy Network
http://www.smokefreehome.org/downloads/Smokefree_Campus_Toolkit/Smokefree%20College%20Campus%20Policy%20Toolkit%20-%20Final%20Copy.pdf

Toward Tobacco-Free Campuses, an article from Inside Higher Ed, October 20,2009
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/20/tobacco

Colleges and Universities With 100% Tobacco-Free Campus Policies, a national list by the American Lung Association from November 2010
http://www.lungoregon.org/tobacco/pdf_word_doc/Tobacco-Free_Colleges_and_Universities_100.pdf

Smoke-Free College Campus Iniative from the American Lung Association
http://ww2.cancer.org/docroot/COM/content/div_Northwest/COM_5_1x_Smoke-Free_College_Campus_Initiative.asp

More information and resources from the American Lung Association website
http://www.lungusa.org/stop-smoking/tobacco-control-advocacy/reports-resources/

Implementing a Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative in Your Workplace, a toolkit from the CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/toolkits/tobacco/index.htm

Half of North Carolina Community Colleges Have Smoke-Free Campuses, a November 17, 2010 news release from the North Carolina Health Wellness Trust Fund
http://www.healthwellnc.com/NCHWTFSiteAdmin/Documents/Press_GASOHalf_NCCommyCollegesSmokeFreeFINAL11910.pdf

"Statewide Diffusion of 100% Tobacco-Free College and University Policies," a research study published in Tobacco Control discusses the first four years of the North Carolina Tobacco-Free Colleges Iniative
http://www.otc.edu/Documents_Tobacco_Free/tobaccocontrol_adv_tfci.pdf


The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issued a report on November 17, 2010 entitled, States Continue Drastic Cuts to Tobacco Prevention Programs: Funding for Programs to Reduce Tobacco Use at Lowest Level Since 1999
http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/product.jsp?id=71454

Time magazine article from March 22, 1971, "Cigarettes: After the Blackout" about the banning of cigarette advertising from American television and radio
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904941,00.html

Americans For Non-Smokers Rights website
http://www.no-smoke.org/

Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids website
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/