{"id":580,"date":"2013-05-07T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=580"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:22:17","slug":"campus-goes-tobacco-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2013\/05\/07\/campus-goes-tobacco-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus goes tobacco-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 25 years since Missouri Western\u2019s first tobacco policy came into effect, a policy that will ban the use of all tobacco products on campus will take effect on July 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>After the Board of Governors approved a resolution supporting a tobacco-free campus at its April 2012 meeting, the office of human resources and the university\u2019s Wellness Committee drafted a policy and won the support of the Student Government Association, the Faculty Senate and the Staff Senate. The proposal was recommended by Missouri Western\u2019s Governance Advisory Council on Oct. 16 and signed by Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western\u2019s president, on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The policy prohibits \u201csmoking, the use of smokeless tobacco products and nicotine delivery devices in facilities, grounds and property owned, leased, or controlled by the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Western\u2019s first smoking policy in 1988 prohibited smoking in all campus buildings except in designated smoking areas. A second, stricter smoking policy was introduced in February 1991, when all buildings on campus became smoke-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 25 years since Missouri Western\u2019s first tobacco policy came into effect, a policy that will ban the use of all tobacco products on campus will take effect on July 1, 2013. After the Board of Governors approved a resolution supporting a tobacco-free campus at its April 2012 meeting, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}