• Provides for a healthier campus for students, staff, faculty and visitors
• Helps establish a new social norm regarding the use of tobacco
• Reduces cigarette and other tobacco litter on campus
• Creates a supportive environment for tobacco-free living
  

 Steps to a Tobacco-Free Campus Policy

• Convene a monthly committee
• Complete a tobacco-free campus opinion survey
• Complete a tobacco-free environmental assessment
• Develop an action plan based on assessment findings, which identifies short- and long-term goals
• Develop a draft policy statement and share with institutions stakeholders
• Adopt and communicate the tobacco-free policy
• Offer tobacco cessation resources to students, staff, and faculty
• Improve the campus environment by removing cigarette receptacles and posting policy signage
• Monitor compliance with the tobacco-free campus policy

 Download Tobacco-Free Campus Factsheets

Tobacco-Free Campuses: A Growing Trend

Over the past decade, the number of tobacco-free college and university campuses in the United States has grown at a tremendous pace. According to Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, as of April 2013, there are at least 1,159 100% smoke-free campuses with no exemptions. Residential housing facilities are included, where they exist. Of these, 783 have a 100% tobacco-free policy. View a full list of schools here. 

Minnesota has seen similar growth in the number of tobacco-free campuses as of late. As of January 2013, there are more than 40 colleges and universities in the state with 100% comprehensive tobacco-free policies. A map of these campuses can be seen here. Learn more about our work at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus here. 

Sample Tobacco-Free Campus Policies

Century College

St. Catherine's University

St. Cloud Technical and Community College

Support for Tobacco-Free Campuses

American College Health Association 

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Tobacco-Free Campuses In the News

"Go outside for a smoke? At many of nation's colleges, you'll have to go off campus completely"

Yahoo! News - 6/28/2012

"MSUM seeing declining number of smokers in wake of on campus ban"

WDAY News 6 - 5/2/2012

For more information contact:

Emily M. Anderson, Program Coordinator

emily [at] ansrmn.org

651-646-3005