EPA Proposes Tighter Particulate Air Pollution Standards

Smoking Policies Tighten in Halls of Academe As the fall 2012 semester gets under way, at least 744 U.S. colleges and universities have made their campuses completely smoke free, indoors and out, and nearly threequarters of those have banned all forms of tobacco on campus. Ty Patterson, executive director of the National Center for Tobacco Policy, told the Christian Science Monitor that many colleges were prompted to make the change by the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2006 statement that secondhand smoke is hazardous at any exposure level. A 2011 survey of nearly 28,000 college students at 44 schools reported daily smoking among 4.6% and occasional smoking in the past 30 days among 9.7%.