Tobacco Free | Tobacco Free Campus

Tobacco Free Campus

Overview

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Charge to Student Life Council

The Student Life Council was charged to examine Berry's current policy in relation to smoking and the use of tobacco products as a result of multiple students, faculty and staff raising the question of Berry College becoming a tobacco-free campus.

The Purpose of this VikingWeb Group

This group was established to disseminate information discovered by the Student Life Council and to gather student, staff and faculty feedback. No decision or proposal has been articulated at this point. The questionnaires will be available on this website November 11-23. You will find the surveys under the tabs labeled "Student survey" or "Faculty/Staff survey" on the menu to the left. There will also be paper surveys for those who may not have readily available access to Internet use.

Definitions

Smoke-Free Campus

A smoke-free campus policy is defined as prohibiting the use of conventional cigarettes, low-yield cigarettes, cigars, bidits, kreteks, and gutkas within buildings (including residential halls), parking lots, walkways, sporting fields and venues, in college fleet vehicles, and on college owned property. This policy applies to all administration, faculty, staff, students, contractors, vendors, and visitors at all college sites.

Tobacco-Free Campus

A tobacco-free campus policy is defined as prohibiting the use of the above mentioned products and chewing tobacco (lose leaf, plug, and twist (or roll), tobacco snuf (moist, dry, or sachets), tobacco lozenges, tobacco tablets, tobacco tabs, tobacco strips, and tobacco sticks within buildings (including residential halls), parking lots, walkways, sporting fields and venues, in college fleet vehicles, and on college owned property. This policy applies to all administration, faculty, staff, students, contractors, vendors, and visitors at all college sites.

Compliance with Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005

Upon investigating the viability of a smoke-free or tobacco-free campus policy, the Student Life Council discovered that Berry is, in some cases, out of compliance with the Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005. See link in the next column under "General resources" for the Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005.

Berry needs to make language and practice adjustments.

Reasonable distance – 15 feet to 20 feet per Americans for Non-Smokers Rights
Smokefree entryway, or "reasonable distance," laws require that no smoking occur within a certain distance (usually 15-25 feet) of doorways, operable windows, and air intake vents of smokefree buildings. These policies help prevent secondhand smoke from drifting back into the building. The policies also allow employees and customers to access the building without walking through clouds of smoke.
(http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=669)