Tobacco Policy Statement
Concern for indoor air quality is a trend-taking place across the nation. In 1989, the Surgeon General renewed a health education campaign against smoking, and Congress passed legislation restriction smoking on domestic airline flights and began consideration of a bill that further limits advertising for smoking products. Studies have revealed that nonsmokers who breathe secondhand smoke face similar health risks as smokers. As a result, a significant number of corporations and academic institutions now require a completely smoke-free environment.
Nicholls State University has a vested interest in creating a healthful and productive atmosphere for its faculty, staff, and students. Providing a generally smoke-free environment is a step in establishing activities that promote a long and health life.
Effective January 1, 2011, Nicholls State University will become a tobacco free campus. The use of any tobacco product in any form (smoking or chewing) will be prohibited effective January 1, 2011. Until that date, the use of Tobacco Products is prohibited in and within 25 feet of university buildings and on university sidewalks.