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Jo Campbell says the movement to a campus-wide ban started during a debate in the spring, which led to 1000 students signing a petition to go tobacco-free.Posted by Lisa Strawbridge - email
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTOL) - University of Toledo students and staff begin voting Thursday on three versions of an on-campus smoking policy.
Option one is to keep the ban as it is now, which means no one can smoke inside any building on campus. They can smoke outside, as long as it's at least 30 feet away from any door.
Option two would create four spots on campus for smoking.
The last option is to ban tobacco on the entire campus.
Smoker Tomara Brewer, who is against the ban, says she has rights just like non smokers.
"I don't think that's right. I mean, why should we have to walk far away just for somewhere to smoke?"
Brewer also says it would be difficult to enforce a ban with so many students on campus.
Student Jake Utz disagrees.
"It has bothered me when you're walking, either in front of someone or behind someone, and they're smoking," he said.
Jo Campbell, who chairs UT's Drug and Alcohol Prevention Committee, says it's about being healthy. She says the movement to a campus-wide ban started during a debate in the spring, which led to 1000 students signing a petition to go tobacco-free.
If the ban passes, Campbell says they'll offer free help for smokers to quit. The ban wouldn't take effect until the 2011 school year.
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