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AUSTRALIAN NEWS
WORLD NEWS
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ASH is calling on tertiary institutions
including universities and TAFE
colleges to review their policies to protect the health of students,
staff and visitors - and establish a more socially responsible and
ethical standard of conduct. In
2007 (see below), we surveyed all Australian university policies on
tobacco, including smokefree areas, research funding, on-campus sales
and promotion. We found that while some excellent policies were in
place, most needed improvement to reach best practice. We
recommend:
1. Making indoor, crowded
outdoor, and all working areas smokefree, with designated outdoor
smoking areas only;
2. Ending all forms of tobacco sale and promotion on campus;
3. Ending all forms of direct or indirect financial arrangements with
tobacco companies; and
4. Providing support for staff and students to quit smoking.
How to do it: See
ASH
Guide for a Tobacco-free Campus
AUSTRALIAN
NEWS
UWS
virtually smokefree from 2013 and no on-campus tobacco sales
July 2012: The University of Western
Sydney will be smokefree in all but designated outdoor areas from 2013 -
and has banned all tobacco sales on-campus from July 2012. The move
follows a survey of over 6000 students and staff showing 70% support for
the policy. UWS
policy
WA
unis to be smokefree by 2013
January 2012: Curtin, Edith
Cowan, and Uni of WA campuses are 100% smokefree from January 1,
and Murdoch plans to follow within a year after a two-stage
process. They will join the Uni of Notre Dame - which took the step in
2002 - making all WA campuses smokefree by January 2013. Australian 10/1/12
Uni of
Adelaide has also totally banned on-campus smoking; James Cook,
Macquarie and Sydney Universities also have
all-but-designated-outdoor-areas smokefree policies.
Sydney
Uni virtually smokefree and ends tobacco sales
2011: The Senate of the
University of Sydney on December 5 passed
a policy prohibiting smoking except in designated outdoor smoking and
performance areas, effective 30 January
2012. On-campus shops have also stopped selling tobacco. See
the policy
Macquarie Uni goes
virtually smokefree
2010: Macquarie University has made its campus smokefree
(in all but some designated outdoor smoking areas).
Macquarie is the first Australian campus to have a smokefree campus AND a
ban on campus tobacco sales. Sydney
Daily Tele 25/11/10
WA universities win top
marks for tobacco-free policies
2009: University of Notre Dame and Edith Cowan University, both
in Western Australia, win ASH's top prizes for (respectively) protecting
their campuses from secondhand smoke and from tobacco industry
interference. See ASH
media release 11/8/09 Survey
summary and results table
Tobacco-free
campus project poster including survey results and comments -
presented by ASH at Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Darwin, October
2009
WORLD
NEWS
Tobacco-free
policies snowball on US campuses
September 2012: Tobacco-free
college and university campus policies are gaining steam across the
United States. Altogether 774 college and university campuses now have
smoke-free policies, according to Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights. Of
these, 562 have a 100% tobacco-free policy with no sales on
campus. Campaign
for Tobacco-free Kids 16/9/12
and earlier report in Christian
Science Monitor 25/7/12 All
Uni of California campuses to be tobacco-free by 2014
January 2012: The President of the University of California has asked
all its campuses to be tobacco-free by 2012, including banning on-campus
sales. Daily
Californian 11/1/12
Many also ban financial connections with tobacco companies.
e.g.
Oklahoma
State University site
RESOURCES
ASH
Australia Guide for a Tobacco-free Campus
(low-resolution pdf)
Why we should make campuses tobacco-free - and how to do it
This Guide has been used as a model for Canadian and international
guides - see below.
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The Guide includes:
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Tobacco
facts;
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Elements
of a tobacco-free policy;
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Benefits;
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Step-by-step
guide to developing and implementing policy;
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Australian
and overseas examples of effective policies; and
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Questions
and answers.
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Canadian
tobacco-free campus guide
Tobacco-free Campus Guide (2011) published in Ottawa, Canada -
modelled on ASH Australia's guide (above). See
Canadian
Tobacco-free Campus Guide
International
tobacco-free campus guide
From the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease -
partly modelled on ASH Australia's (above). See
International guide
"Unlawful,
deceptive and lethal"
See the tobacco industry's long and continuing history of unethical
conduct - including misleading governments and the public, targeting young people,
distorting and undermining scientific research.
More
on smokefree
places
More information
for tertiary students/staff
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