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ASH is calling on 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.
LATEST NEWS:
WA universities win top
marks for tobacco-free policies
11/8/09: 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 tobacco industry
interference. See ASH
media release 11/8/09 See Survey
summary and results table See Tobacco-free
campus project poster including survey results and comments -
presented by ASH at Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Darwin, October
2009
ASH
Guide for a Tobacco-free Campus
(low-resolution pdf)
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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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Many
US campuses tobacco-free
More than 300 US university and college campuses have 100% smokefree
policies - see current
list
Many also ban financial connections with tobacco companies. See for
example this Oklahoma
State University site
"Unlawful,
deceptive and lethal"
See the tobacco industry's long and continuing history of unethical
conduct: misleading governments and the public, targeting young people,
undermining medical research.
International
tobacco-free campus guide
From the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. See
the guide
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