Campus Tobacco Policy
Is Someone Else's Smoking Bothering You?
UCI Smoking Policy: Smoking is prohibited in outdoor areas within 25 feet (or more depending on special circumstances) of entrances, exits and any other locations where smoke may be brought into a UCI facility. For more information, visit the UCI Smoking Policy.
In 1986, the US Surgeon General reported that involuntary smoking can cause lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. Recent studies confirmed that secondhand smoke causes death from heart disease. Research also confirms the significant damage caused to infants and children by parents who smoke, including reduced lung function, higher rates of bronchitis and pneumonia and aggravated symptoms in asthmatic children.
Breathing healthy and clean air is your right. Take the following steps to help:
- Let family, friends, coworkers and others know that you mind if they smoke.
- Put stickers, buttons and signs in your home, car and office to remind people not to smoke.
- Support legislation to restrict smoking and to set-up smoke free areas in public places.
- Ask your doctor and dentist to eliminate smoking in their waiting rooms and to help enforce nonsmoking regulations in all health-care facilities.
- Propose no-smoking resolutions at organization meetings.
- Encourage management and unions where you work to establish a policy to protect nonsmokers on the job.
- Help to promote the concept of smoke-free families in your community.
- Join a local network promoting activism around smoke-free issues.
