Promoting a tobacco free campus for UNM
Diary Blog, By Juan f. Larrañaga (written on 12-9-05)

UNM Tobacco-free & Smoke Free Campus

Coalition for a UNM Smoke-Free/Tobacco-Free Campus

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April 19, 2010. Flavored Tobacco Pellets Are Denounced as a Lure to Young Users By DUFF WILSON Published: April 18, 2010 A research study and editorial to be published Monday in the medical journal Pediatrics takes direct aim at a novel tobacco product that some critics say too closely resembles Tic Tac breath mints.


2008 Youtube: Ilana interviews students about the possibility of a campus wide smoking ban at UNM. Proposed Navajo Smoke Ban Could Impact Casino - Monday, 21 July 2008 Tribal gaming official says a tribal council ban could mean a 20 percent drop in revenues. Among the items on the agenda for the Navajo Nation Council's summer session that gets under way today is a proposed ban on the use of commercial tobacco, according to The Associated Press. University needs to ban smoking on Main Campus Column: The perils of secondhand smoke March 12, Good health policy means creating tobacco-free/smoke-free zones March 6 - UNM Talks on the Tobacco/Smoke-Free Campus Initiative Linda Peñaloza and Eric Chrisp of the UNM Prevention Research Center discuss the tobacco/smoke-free campus initiative in an interview with Sari Krosinsky, University Communication and Marketing. Listen to podcast (13:56 minutes) Our goal is to help you stay above the influence. Recommendations: Quit smoking, Smoke inside, smoke away from our residence. Report to you city councilors. Weyco Co. president Howard Weyers has taken his anti-smoking philosophy on the road Feb 27
The UNM Regents and administration assured the public and those concerned that after making Health Sciences Center smoke-free they would start the process on main campus. The regent s and administration should have a tobacco-free forum to address the issue. The regent s and administration should call for open comments at a board meeting and invite interested parties. Staff Council overwhelmingly voted to pass a resolution to the regent s and administration to make UNM a tobacco-free campus. A real study on this policy needs to occur. After the university surveys high school seniors, students, faculty, visitors, and athletes - then UNM can assess when it will be ready to be tobacco-free. The Coalition for a UNM Smoke Free Campus took the first steps by getting students and staff to vote and also with an awareness campaigns. 105 other colleges & universities have done so. How did they do it? Same way UNM made HSC smoke-free, by working with the community, students, staff, doctors, & administration. There was a compassionate process in changing this policy. Currently UNM enforces smoke-free buildings - UNM can use the same method - with the UNM employee, student, and visitor codes of conduct.

What is the real smoke screen that is holding up UNM from going tobacco-free. More than 1500 people have signed petitions or voted to make UNM tobacco-free or smoke-free.

The Daily Lobo web site and blog site has a good ongoing discussion on the issue.

Juan Fidel Larrañaga Student

http://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/mpower_report_full_2008.pdf

Him coming into class after smoking has become an issue to me. I noticed it yesterday in class. His odor was unbearable when he came into class. The scent is disruptive to me and to my learning

Wow, I just saw something that made me think I was in the 60's. I just witnessed a professor share a drag of a cigarette with a student, just south of the Ford Advisement Center. Have you been able to speak to professors? Is there a code of conduct for professors on this issue?

I was eating lunch near the steps and subsequently moved when the second hand smoke affected me.

The professor in question wears glasses, has black slick back hair. Is tall and has a bumpy face, chin, neck. (from smoking tobacco?)

Thank you for your attention. thank you for your response. Who at Anderson is enforcing the 25 foot rule? Also, does the city have a 50 foot rule that we should follow?

I have another concern. Why as a student must I be forced to sit in a room with a professor who smokes just before class, at breaks, and passes his poison onto the class full of students? In this day and age it is unacceptable for teachers to lecture and make the room reek of second hand smoke, from their breath and from their clothes. Same is true for office hours and the professor's office.

Thank you for your assistance.

18 comments January 2006 - (2007 news at the bottom of page.) Kids live tobacco & smoke free Tobacco fumes called pollutant NMSU Smokers may have to relocate (Las Cruces Sun News) tobaccofreeu.org

Native American Hospital -- East of UNMH

Health Summit: I work and exercise at the University of New Mexico. I ask the Regents, University Officials, & those who live near the University to change the policy to make all of UNM a Smoke Free Campus. Please promote a Smoke Free Campus. thank you. Staff Health Fair

February 21st, 2006. Staff Council Meeting I want to thank you or allowing the discussion for a healthier community Within UNM. Next Coalition meeting is March 31st at 1. more than 300 people signed the petitions for a Smoke Free Campus - some were unaware that we are not already a smoke free campus. Question to go on ballot to staff. ! February 23rd, 2006. Industrial Hygiene Meeting with Larry Watson, SHEA. Wonderful, Intelligent, supportive Group! Indoor Air Quality Complaint Please also note there is a center on campus: New Mexico Center for Environmental Health Sciences that deals with environmental toxicology. I previously wrote the director about this but they will likely not take officaial stances. They may still be interested as individuals: February 10, 2006 "Smoking: Take it off campus" Please stop passing gas | Stop Smoking | dontpassgas.org Santa Fé Saloon Smoking May Go By Emily Crawford Journal Northern Bureau . The Río Chama also is planning a private, underground dining area~W but such a facility might still be covered by the proposed no-smoking ban as a workplace for servers and other employees. Suggestion from staff: each staff member volunteer to pick up littered butts enforced by managers Senate House Memorial "When did UNM turn into a public ash Tray (have you seen all the butts!)?" Along those lines, staff want to put out giant c. butts as an example of how filthy our campus has become from littered butts. "It's about health!" Coalition for a UNM Smoke-Free Campus Meeting with Carol Stephens Daily Lobo Opinion University of New Mexico Community, Last year a group of concerned individuals came together to promote a smoke free campus for north campus, main campus, and all branch campuses. The objectives of the Coalition for a UNM Smoke-Free Campus are to inform the community of the harms of smoking and second hand smoke, removing second hand smoke a reasonable distance from buildings and spots of congregation, & to amend the current UNM policy. A UNM smoke free campus will promote healthier lifestyles and provide a healthier workplace. A goal of the coalition is to promote a healthier campus for visitors (of all ages), prospective students, enrolled students, staff, & faculty, & hospital patients. We are saddened when we think of the unhealthy example we set for young visitors and the harmful effects of second hand smoke they & we inhale daily. Further, we have day care centers on campus that many students use for their children on a daily basis. The Coalition has started a petition drive for UNM to support a Smoke Free Campus. What type of message do we send to the community and to our peer institutions about how we address the problems associated with second hand smoke? UNM is a flagship institution for the state, leading in research, healthcare, & education and should set the pace for the future by establishing a smoke free campus. The coalition seeks to change the current policy, which bans smoking in all university buildings, to a smoke free UNM campus. In doing so, UNM would join the ranks of smoke free campuses that include: University of Arkansas, Riverside Community College, Gainesville College, Burlington County College, Alvin Community College, San Antonio College, San Jacinto College, University of Wisconsin at Baraboo/Sauk County, (to name a few); Also, city wide there are various designated smoke free areas: ABQ Zoo & Biological Park, Day Care Centers, public schools, etc. Many corporations and organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), Miracle Gro, airlines, hotels, & theme parks, as well as local entities such as Presbyterian Hospital are smoke free among their patrons and their staff. A smoke free campus can also serve as a support and impetus for those who want or struggle to quit. The coalition will make it a priority to connect these individuals with the smoking cessation programs and pharmaceutical therapies they need to be successful, and will advocate for health insurance cost reductions for tobacco-free employees. Smoking cessation programs are available to smokers through the University Hospital Patient Education, the Student Health Center and for UNM Faculty and Staff through the UNM Employee Health Promotion Program. The Commission on Substance Abuse at Colleges and Universities considers a smoke-free campus to be a necessary step to protect all students, faculty and staff from the risks of smoking. A smoke-free campus is no longer an option for colleges and universities; it is an obligation (Smoke Free Campus 1993). The current surgeon general notes, "There is no safe level of exposure to second hand smoke" & "Tobacco use in any form, active or passive is a significant health hazard." Please consider the future health of all of us. Concerned, Coalition for a Smoke Free UNM Campus For the health & well being of faculty, staff, students, perspective students, patients, and visitors. - Expose Coalition facilitator - ph: 244-9505 ext. 18 - nmvoices.org

Our zoo is smoke-free 4-4-06 9 AM - noticed an employee burning a quit smoking flyer pinned to table with lighter. Thursday, April 13, 2006 S.F. Council May Expand Smoking Ban Associated Press SANTA FE — All members of the City Council and Mayor David Coss have signed on to a proposal that will ban smoking in nearly all public spaces. Group fights for smoke-free UNM Katy Knapp Issue date: 4/20/06 Section: News Media Credit: Harrison Brooks / Daily Lobo Billy Howell, left, smokes outside Marron Hall while having a conversation with non-smoker Allen C. Jones. The Coalition for a UNM Smoke Free Campus is petitioning to eliminate smoking on campus.Daily Lobo Within the next few years, UNM could be completely smoke-free. The Coalition for a UNM Smoke-Free Campus is petitioning to ban smoking everywhere on campus, including outside. Juan Larrañaga, an organizer of the coalition, said the idea is to make UNM a better place to be. "We're promoting a smoke-free initiative on all campuses - branch campuses, main campus, north campus and the hospital - to improve the health of staff, faculty, students and patients," he said. UNM's smoking policy, created in 1997, allows smoking everywhere except in University buildings. Larrañaga said the coalition wants to amend the policy to ban smoking in all areas of campus. Smokers would be asked to go to the nearest major street like Central Ave. or University Blvd., Larrañaga said. "That's essentially a two block walking distance," he said. Not all members of the coalition are for the complete ban on smoking, Larrañaga said, but that is what he is pushing. "Other members want to see how far we can get with that, but if there needs to be a compromise, then we will look at defining what a reasonable distance is for smoking," he said. Under the policy now, smokers must stand within a "reasonable distance" from buildings when smoking, although that distance is not defined. "Another compromise might be to have designated areas," he said. Kristin Woodruff, director of Expose, a student group aiming to educate their peers on the effects of tobacco and tobacco companies, is a member of the coalition. She said not having a definition of "reasonable distance" is a problem. "The majority of them smoke right by the entrance ways," she said. "And we are forced to inhale these harmful carcinogens when we are going in and out of the buildings." Student Erin Saulsberry said she used be a smoker. Asking people to leave campus to smoke is a form of discrimination, she said. Continued. Calabasas goes smoke free Smoke-free city To the editor: In response to Jacob Sullum's March 10 commentary on the smoke-free California city of Calabasas, I would move there in a nanosecond if I were younger and had the money to start over. I smoked from age 16 to 28 years, quitting when the surgeon general made his first cancer warning and the price of cigarettes was raised to 25 cents per pack. I inhaled many years of second-hand smoke as a secretary. I am a severe asthmatic, and I have learned that I now have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Exposure to smokers as I try to enter a building is a real challenge. My throat begins to close as I inhale this poison, and I experience deep, painful coughing. If I had my way, employees would have to go out on the loading dock to smoke, and no smoking whatsoever would be allowed in shopping centers. I know smokers are in the minority, but their habit affects all of us when we cross paths in public. A smoker's right to smoke stops at my nose! Christine M. Stutz LAS VEGAS Letter: Unfair to force nonsmokers to tolerate fumes at UNM Issue date: 4/24/06 Section: Opinion I just read the article "Group fights for smoke-free UNM" in Thursday's issue of the Daily Lobo and I must tell you, God may smile on us yet. I have been waiting for a smoking ban for the entire UNM Hospital for some time. I am a former smoker with a lung disease and must wear oxygen now. It is very annoying to reach the door where there is a crowd of smokers. I have a hard time holding my breath until I get past them. I can't believe we still have smokers who are aware of the hazards of smoking. Please, let's do whatever is necessary to get them off of public property with that disgusting odor. If it is discrimination to ask them not to smoke on public property, it is discrimination to force us nonsmokers to tolerate it. Good for Juan Larrañaga and anyone else who is willing to fight for a smoke-free environment. It is coming - it is just a matter of time. Jan Hunter, UNM staff States, Towns Kicking the Habit Smoking Bans On Rise Nationwide BY JAMIE KIZZIRE AND MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press LUVERNE, Ala. If New York City can ban smoking in bars and restaurants, why not the town of Luverne We don't see why a small rural town can't do the same thing, said Al Snellgrove, a former Luverne councilman who helped enact the ban last year. The town's residents adapted, said Mark Grant, a smoker who owns Luverne's Our House restaurant. He's only had to tell a couple of people to put out their smokes, both visitors passing through. "I'm accosted with smoke just trying to get into the hospital." Have you ever wondered what causes many of the fire evacuations and emergencies on campus? Cigarettes in trash cans – Most common problem? Many smokers simply are not consciously aware that they are throwing the cigarette in the trash can or are thinking that they don’t want to litter the ground. SOLUTION. (no I won’t tell you to stop smokin..but!) Simply discard the cigarette in a proper smoking waste container making sure it is completely “snuffed out” and be conscious of the fact that most cigarettes are never really “snuffed out” when you think they are. The Pediatric Hospitalist and the Smoking Parent Here's the KUNM Radio news story on smoke-free campus.   Go to either KUNM.org and click on UNM Students and Staff Debate Smoking Ban on Campus or copy and paste this into your seacrh bar to go directly to the audio player: KUNM.org http://kunm.org/news/current/index.php?id=EEuZFEpkpytzmtBtXg   Smoke Free Movies
New Mexicans Concerned About Tobacco Posted smoke free zone signs taken down and also burned. may 06 sad that smokers still smoke in posted areas that smoke free. Clouds of second hand smoke polluting the area. 5-25-06 The example that comes to mind is the difference between County and City in restaurant smoke free zones. I will boycott and protect my health by staying away from County Restaurants. The city set a great example. Think about eating at a restaurant. Do you want smoke, second hand smoke, ruining your meal. thank you city council for cleaning the air in restaurants. UNM child care - "young lungs in development" Children's Campus - Smoke Free. HSC meetings KOAT spot NMSU changes policy July 2006 Little old Bayard, NM goes smokefree in public places. July 21, 2006 in ABQJournal. Great article Kristen! I just read it and was compelled to let you know that, although I am a smoker, your arguments are well-written. Banning smoking will not only help those who do not smoke, but those who do as well. You should be a writer. Your fellow student, Myra Below please find a link that will take you to "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General" just released in June 2006. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2006/index.htm
July 2006 "Watch out, She's toxic. Step away - there's poison smoke coming from her hand and her mouth"

"what's that sticking out of your mouth???"

Whom do we express ourselves to regarding the patio area between BRF and BMSB on the ground level? I understand that UNM policy has a no smoking within 20/[12?] feet from any entrance to the building. this surely has a door right to the area from BSMB This area is a beautiful area that all should be able to take a break and eat their lunch. the stink of smoke and cleanliness of this area is pretty bad because of the smokers. I do not think that smokers should be using this area. Can this be rectified?

Thanks for your help.


"You really shouldn't smoke Miss Lane", Superman. August 2006 MEASUREMENTS OF OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE ON THE UMBC CAMPUS, June 1, 2005 James Repace, MSc. Repace Associates, Inc. 101 Felicia Lane Bowie, MD 20720 www.repace.com
Letter: Clean air a commodity that everyone deserves 8/22 Butt cans near buildings? Whose wise idea was that? they should be 25 feet from entrances. unextinguished cigarettes left to burn out and expose toxins from where it lies on ground. ---- To: Greg S Remington after hearing a report last night I am disgusted that you have brought smoking back into the stadiums. We were at an Isotopes game last night and had to pass the toxic second hand smoking area to get to the kids playground. Now UNM is going to have us enter or leave the stadium and succumb to toxic second hand smoke areas. I am very displeased with the decision to put smoking in the stadium when it is clearly stated in the UNM policies that this is prohibited. Smoking of tobacco products is prohibited in University buildings, facilities, vehicles, and during organized indoor and outdoor events on University property. Smoking is prohibited in or at: indoor and outdoor athletic or other University-sponsored or designated events. Smoking is permitted outdoors on University property except during designated organized events. --- In the past, fans who wished to smoke were required to leave the stadium. Now, Remington said, "We'll have a couple of fenced-off areas (for smokers) in the southwest and southeast corners of the stadium." --- IUPUI Campus to Become Tobacco Free
New Policy Promotes Health, Reflects Campus’ Health/Life Sciences Emphasis
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will be one of the first large urban universities to ban the use or sale of all tobacco products when the entire IUPUI campus goes “Tobacco Free” this fall. Places going smoke free - Tri - Core - Blue Cross Blue Shield - Lockheed Martin - Sandía National Labs Public Schools are smoke free (see image)
APS Sign at local elementary school
Several smokers have told me to do something about it everytime I ask them to stop smoking or move their second hand smoke away. Smoke Free Campus is my way of responding to them challenging me to do something about it. Please help us change policy to remove cancer causing second hand smoke. Protestors at Smoke Free Campus Event I want to thank all the participants of the Smoke Free Campus Forum. Especially the panel of experts who presented statistics and ideas like - more then 3000 deaths each year are due to second hand smoke; that cities like Calabasas, CA are smoke free; that Presbyterian Campus and all its clinics are smoke free; that tobacco companies are targeting youth by sweetening cigarettes, in a concentrated effort to replace dying smokers; that any amount of second hand smoke is harmful; that tobacco negatively affects youth; that nicotine is an addiction; that California has categorized second hand smoke as an environmental pollutant; finally, that UNM will eventually be smoke free. Kristen reported that students have tried to change dormitory policies to move smokers away from entrances & enclosed areas without avail. Many faculty, staff, visitors, & students signed our petition to make UNM a Smoke Free Campus. Comments we received from the audience were: "Thank you for doing this." "I hate it when I'm exercising and I smell that." "Even a little bit of smoke affects me." Unfortunately there were a handful of disrespectful protestors who attempted to disrupt the forum. The small group purposely marched through to parade their opposition, playing music to interfere with panelist presentations, and attempting to take over the forum. The said group sat down and lit up cigarettes in protest. The audience, including myself, and panelists were accosted with second hand smoke as the protestors displayed their privilege of smoking on campus. Three young women, thereafter, got up from their seats & moved away from the clouds of smoke blown at them from the protestors. I urge UNM Administration to move forward to amend the policy to remove cancer causing second hand smoke from campus .. For the health of all of us. --- Yesterday~Rs Daily Lobo article on the Smoke-free forum neglected to address two important subjects. It first failed to provide any of the information on the consequences of secondhand smoke that was presented by the panel of experts in the field, and it also neglected to mention the disrespectful behavior of the students who attempted to represent at least some of the smokers on campus. According to student Brice Sawin, ~S~Enot being able to smoke when you~Rre walking to class is just ridiculous~T is evidence of the lack of knowledge that many individuals have about the consequences of secondhand smoke medically and economically on the UNM campus and our community. These costs totaled about $6 billion in 2004 in the United States alone, according to a study released by the American Academy of Actuaries on October 3, 2006. As a graduate of UNM, I understand the high cost of tuition, books, and housing. Lots of money is spent on maintenance and repairs due to smoking on campus which could be used to lower tuition and other expenses students incur. The coalition had two objectives for the forum; to present solid evidence concerning the effects of secondhand smoke to the UNM community, and to invite differing viewpoints in a Q&A session. Several students arrived about five minutes into the forum smoking excessively, and puffing on their cigarettes profusely in order to create a disturbance. They also heckled the presenters and acted in a childish manner with wild antics and comments. I am a former smoker of three to four packs a day and never did I impose my secondhand smoke on anyone in the most outrageous and contemptible way in which these students did. The blatant behavior of these students just reinforces the need to have a policy concerning smoking on the UNM campus. Empirical evidence shows that secondhand smoke is harmful not only medically, but also it harms UNM economically in lost wages and benefits from disability. Furthermore, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 438,000 persons in the United States died prematurely each year as a result of smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke. It is time for UNM policymakers to contemplate public smoking restrictions on our campus. Reuben Estrada UNM staff there is one thing that concerns me a lot: as a cancer center, receiving a lot of money from the NIH, NCI we have to promote a smoke-free environment but, as you noted, around the Cancer Center, in front, back and sides, there is a lot of people smoking near the "No smoking" sign and, worse of all, some clever administrator decided to hang special receptors to put the butts!!! Who can address this issue? the director? I have no idea but if you're going to that meeting, keep in place that thing: it's mandatory to have a free-smoke place but nobody is paying attention here. 3000 lung cancer deaths/yr, and 46,000 from cardiovascular disease, in the US due to secondhand smoke. I think Philly did go smoke free earlier this year - Pittsburgh (actually all of Allegheny County) just had its ordinance passed and signed. Allegheny County's smokefree ordinance requires all facilities (indoor and outdoor) owned by healthcare organizations to become smokefree.  I'm not aware of any other law like that.  To send a letter to County Executive Dan Onorato urging him to sign the ordinance, go to http://www.smokefree.net/allegheny/ ____________________________________________________________________________
Peralta Elementary School Infiltration of Secondhand Smoke into Condominiums, Apartments and Other Multi-Unit Dwellings Susan Schoenmarklin April 2004 Smoke Free Campus Forum
Wed., Oct. 4, 2006. 3 - 4 PM East Plaza - East of the SUB Panel Members are: Dona Upson, MD, UNM Internal Medicine Jane Bowes, PhD, UNM Patient Education Kristen Woodruff, Student Cynthia Serna, New Mexicans Concerned About Tobacco

From: Bill Godshall To: Health Advocates Subject: [bg-announce]Philly goes smokefree To send letters urging your elected officials to enact smokefree legislation that protects ALL workers, go to http://www.smokefree.net/alerts.php - - - -   After Months of Wavering, Mayor Street Signs Citywide Smoking Ban   by KYW~Rs Mike Dunn http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/83099.php?contentType=4&contentId=205343 Come next January, a ban on public smoking will be the law of the land in Philadelphia.  Mayor Street signed the ban on Thursday - - - - - Philadelphia Mayor Signs Smoking Ban NBC10.com (Philadelphia) 11:58 am EDT September 14, 2006 http://www.nbc10.com/news/9847133/detail.html?rss=phi&psp=news   PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Mayor John Street signed a citywide smoking ban Thursday morning.   The new ban will kick in next year and will forbid smoking in most public places, including many bars and restaurants.   Philadelphia now joins New York and neighboring New Jersey and Delaware in issuing smoking bans.   People violating the new ban could face a Department of Health fine between $25 and $300.   The City Council passed the ban back in June, but many weren~Rt sure if it would get the veto stamp from Street. ____________________________________________________________________________ Letter: Right to smoke infringes on others' right to clean air Issue date: 10/19/06 Section: Opinion In response to Deadra Wright's letter in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, what Constitution is she reading? Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it grant or imply a person's right to smoke. Wright may have the right to buy cigarettes, but the right to smoke them publicly is a gray area. We assume that if we have the legal right to buy it, we must have the legal right to use it. It is sort of an implied power of the people. If one looks at the Declaration of Independence, one will see the rights Wright must be thinking of - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, the pursuit of those rights is limited by the same rights of other people within society, as the laws of our nation show. Examine cigarettes and guns - one has the right to buy a gun; one has the right to buy cigarettes. Rights fade as one explores the use of the rights one exercises. One cannot rightfully or legally use a gun to shoot people walking down the street, because it infringes upon their rights - little life, liberty or happiness is found by being shot or possibly killed by a gun. That's why it is strange that walking down that same street a person can freely produce a carcinogen-containing smoke that has been proven to negatively affect the health of adults and children and bring heart disease and cancer, both of which can lead to death. A person smoking is infringing upon others' right to pursue life, liberty and happiness, just as a gun would. It is no supposition that secondhand smoke kills. Go check out the American Lung Association's Web site and numerous other scientific articles in the academic medium. Maybe it's just me, but I have yet to hear anyone call cancer, asthma or any other secondhand smoke side effects enjoyable. I'm sure not a big fan of my asthma. They have gun control laws for a reason, too. As for Wright's other remarks, this issue is of importance to the University, because UNM is funded by the students' and the state's money, and students are saying they're tired of inhaling others' toxins. I am willing for my tuition to go to a smoke-free campus. Revisions have been made to minimize the carbon emissions produced by cars that worsen global warming. Have you seen any cigarette revisions to make them less toxic to smokers and nonsmokers? Jesse Stark, UNM student Since UNM is drug-free, it should be smoke-free Issue date: 11/8/06 Section: Opinion Daily Lobo I was a student at the Gallup branch of UNM. However, I still read the Daily Lobo. I just want to say that I think the Alburquerque campus should be smoke-free. I am not a smoker, and the smell of secondhand smoke is really annoying. UNM should not just be a drug-free campus, but smoke-free as well, for the good of all the students. All of us who do not smoke should not be exposed to smoke from other people. Besides, I don't like my clothes smelling like smoke when I don't smoke. Smokers should go to their cars or wait until they get off campus to smoke. They can even chew some gum or something, but they shouldn't make us inhale that nasty smoke. Smokers also need to think about all those people who have asthma and other respiratory problems. Those people should definitely not have to put up with smokers. After all, their health can be at risk because of this. Elaine June, Daily Lobo reader
Thursday, December 07, 2006 N.M. Ranks 16th in Tobacco Prevention Associated Press New Mexico ranked 16th in the nation in funding programs that aim to steer children away from tobacco products, according to a report released Wednesday by a coalition of public health groups. New Mexico spent $7.7 million this year on tobacco prevention programs, which is about 56 percent of the minimum amount recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the report says. The ranking is an improvement for New Mexico, which came in 19th last year when it spent $6 million on tobacco prevention. ''New Mexico has increased its modest investment in protecting kids from tobacco, but it is still spending barely half of the CDC's recommended minimum,'' said William V. Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. ''.. Tobacco prevention is a smart investment that protects kids, saves lives and saves money by reducing tobacco-related health care costs.'' In New Mexico, the report says, tobacco use costs the state $461 million in health care bills. Also, a quarter of New Mexico high school students smoke and 2,400 more children become regular smokers each year. The annual report was released by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association. Only three states — Maine, Delaware and Colorado — met CDC recommended funding levels. Five states — Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire and Tennessee — allocated no significant state funds for tobacco prevention, the report says. Fourteen states fund prevention programs at about half the minimum levels, while 28 states and the District of Columbia spend less than half the minimum amount, according to the report.
mytimetoquit.com Recent November 2006 Student Election. 55% of students in favor/voted of a smoke free campus. Staff are 61% in favor of a smoke free campus. 24. UNM Smoking Ban Backed, by Olivier Uyttebrouck (Alburquerque Journal) Regents recommended a plan Thursday to make the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center campus smoke-free next year, including outdoor areas. Regents also asked a committee to begin discussions with faculty, staff and students that could one day extend the ban to UNM's main campus. http://www.unm.edu/news/07JanNewsClips/03smoking.htm Dec. 22, 2006 Alburquerque Journal UNM Smoking Ban Backed By Olivier Uyttebrouck Journal Staff Writer Regents recommended a plan Thursday to make the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center campus smoke-free next year, including outdoor areas. Regents also asked a committee to begin discussions with faculty, staff and students that could one day extend the ban to UNM's main campus. "I am strongly in favor of a smoke-free campus, and I want to move in that direction as soon as we can," Regent Mel Eaves told members of the regents finance committee. Though no timeline has been announced, health sciences leaders are likely to ban smoking at UNM Hospital when the new Barbara and Bill Richardson Pavilion opens in April, said Pug Burge, an assistant dean at UNM's School of Medicine. The ban will likely extend to the entire health sciences campus by August, she said. Current UNM policy bans smoking from most buildings, but it has few restrictions on outdoor areas. Regents recommended a resolution Thursday approving the health sciences ban. The full board will consider the resolution in January. But regents opted to delay extending the ban to UNM's main campus pending discussions with faculty, staff and student groups. Regents asked Burge and other members of a health sciences committee to meet with main campus groups to discuss a campuswide ban. Regent Jamie Koch said the committee has worked for months developing a consensus among groups at UNM's Health Sciences Center. He said groups favoring a ban on main campus need to undertake a similar effort on main campus.
2007 Pelosi Bans Smoking Near House Floor Jan 10, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) - New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is snuffing out one of Congress' enduring prerogatives, still cherished by some lawmakers - the right to smoke near the floor of the House. Pelosi, D-Calif., announced Wednesday that effective immediately, House members would no longer be able to light up in the ornate Speaker's Lobby off the House floor where lawmakers mingle during votes. The room is often hazy with smoke, as it was Tuesday night as the House voted on anti-terror legislation; Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, often has cigarette in hand, for example. "The days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over," Pelosi said. "Medical science has unquestionably established the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of cancer and respiratory diseases. I am a firm believer that Congress should lead by example." Smoke-filled rooms won't be gone entirely - lawmakers will still be allowed to smoke in their own offices. Smoking is banned in most federal buildings, and the District of Columbia recently banned smoking in public areas, as has Pelosi's home district of San Francisco and a number of other cities. APS and city property are Smoke free. Help protect our lungs from second hand pollution. ----- i don't remember a time when I was a kid, when summer time didn't mean working with tobacco. it was just .. I used to love it. it was during that period when working with the guys on the farm seemed like fun to me. starting in 1964, with the surgeon general's report, the evidence was laid out on the connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. We kept growing tobacco. Nancy was almost 10 years older than me. and there were only the two of us. she was my protector and my friend at the same time. she started smoking when she was a teenager and never stopped. She died of lung cancer. that's one of the ways you don't want to die. the idea that we had been part of that economic pattern that produced the cigarettes, that produced the cancer, it was so .. it was so painful on so many levels. My father, he had grown tobacco all his life. He stopped. whatever explanation had seemed to make sense in the past, just didn't cut it anymore. he stopped it. it's just human nature to take time to connect the dots. I know that. but I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly. Al Gore - President http://www.hokeg.dyndns.org/AITruth.htm#a32 Feb 2007 HSC to go smoke-free Link to Dr. Roth Letter Sandía National Laboratories to go tobacco-free starting March 1 (articles in Trib feb 20 & journal feb 21)
Congratulations Don B and UNM staff council - I am ecstatic to report that Staff Council passed a resolution for UNM to go tobacco free. Feb 20, 2007. Tobacco Town Hall "Are those lives worth more where they have smoke free/ tobacco-free campuses?" Staff votes to ban tobacco on campus tobaccofree Foundation for a Smokefree America
Santa Fé - NM School for the Deaf March 2007 OSU Considers Tobacco-Free Campus - President indicates they will go Tobacco-Free (2007 UNM) http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/1206/377569.html Monday December 04, 2006 10:54am Stillwater (AP) - Officials at Oklahoma State are considering proposals to make the campus tobacco-free and requiring a course aimed at teaching healthy lifestyles. O-S-U already prohibits smoking within 25 feet of campus buildings but the plan calls for banning all tobacco from university property. But university President David Schmidly calls the issue difficult because tobacco use is legal and he says some people would see a ban as an attack on personal freedoms. Some options include a proposal to designate smoking areas in less-used areas of the campus. Initial Reasons to go Tobacco Free vs. Smoke Free General Tobacco Control Websites www.tobacco.org Tobacco bulletin board system (bbs) with daily news updates, links to other tobacco control and tobacco industry site. A great source for historical documents. www.tobacco.org/Misc/tob_ad_mags.html A page on this site lists magazines and newspapers that do not advertise tobacco products (although some do accept the feel-good Philip Morris ads). www.ash.org This Web site for Action on Smoking and Health includes litigation updates and tobacco control news. Web site of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.

http://kickbuttsday.org/

www.whatareyousmoking.org

www.no-smoke.org Web site for the Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.

www.infact.org/about.html Shows pictures and provides background information on individuals who die from tobacco-related illnesses. Figure out how much money you save by not smoking - per pack. More than $1,000.00 per year.

PodCast of BACCHUS 6th Annual National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults, March 2007, Denver. Building a Grassroots Coalition for a Tobacco Free University.

Johnson & Johnson going tobacco free outdoors.

Outdoor SHS Levels. The Journal of the Air & Waste Management Associations May 2007 issue is one of the first published studies to show that outdoor cigarette smoke levels can be substantial under certain conditions. View the abstract


Proposed changes to UNM Policy #2250 "Smoking on University Property" is available for review and comment at http://www.unm.edu/~ubppm/ A summary of the key points is also available.
Please submit any comments by July 17, 2007 to this office at MSC07 4270 or via e-mail to ubppm@unm.edu Questions regarding the proposed changes should be referred to this office. Thank you. Respectfully, Yolanda J. Moya, Policy Specialist UNM Policy Office 505 277-9749 http://www.unm.edu/~ubppm/ubppmanual/2250mem.htm

---- new study on outdoor SHS exposure (fwd)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YvCv0-RxAuo Tobacco-Free

http://tobaccofreeca.com/

http://www.tobaccofreeliving.org/home/

From: Cynthia.Serna@cancer.org

Outdoor SHS Levels. The Journal of the Air & Waste Management Associations May 2007 issue is one of the first published studies to show that outdoor cigarette smoke levels can be substantial under certain conditions. View the abstract: http://secure.awma.org/journal/PreviewDisplayAbstract.asp?PaperID=1750

From julia.valdez@heart.org Thu Jun 14 09:12:43 2007 Date: Thu, 14 Jun

Here's a 30-second PSA script that would be great for youth (or any) advocates to record. (see below)

It would be helpful if your local radio stations could run these as public service announcements to help get the word out.

After June 15 the script could change from "The law goes into effect on June 15" to "The law took effect on June 15" and run it after the fact, since it's will take some time to get the word out to everyone.

If anyone does record it and get a station to use it, please contact Cheryl Ferguson at Cheryl@nmpolicymatters.com

Julia Valdez, Director New Mexico Government Affairs CELL PHONE (505) 310-1677 SANTA FE (505) 466-1321 Heart Disease and Stroke. You're the Cure. Join our grassroots network today! Click here to be part of the Cure!

1. :30 Announcer Radio:
ANNCR: The next time you go out to a bar or restaurant, try this: Take a deep breath. And enjoy it. Without breathing in second-hand smoke. Thanks to the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act, the future will be healthier for all of us, with smoke-free restaurants, bars, offices and other indoor establishments. The law goes into effect on June 15 throughout New Mexico.
For more information, visit SmokeFreeNM.com. A message from Smoke Free New Mexico. Improving the state of our health.

We can all breathe easier. Beginning June 15, 2007 New Mexico will be a smoke-free state. http://www.smokefreenm.com/


June 2007 I don't understand why UNM is not tobacco-free yet. Recently I had lunch with my son and his UNM summer program at the duck pond. We at UNM need to do a better job of protecting all these young lungs on campus. Second hand smoke kills. Second hand smoke on campus with kids on campus teeters on child abuse. What a horrible example is set when these young, bright kids see staff and others and their addiction to nicotine. Along with this the UNM students voted to go smoke-free Nov 2006. Thank you for your time. A concerned parent, neighborhood member, student, and employee.

iCan't wait until Aug 1, when HSC goes smoke-free. Then Tobacco-Free. Good things are happening at HSC.

What will the future hold? One day we will look back and say " I can't believe we littered our streets, work, flower pots with butts and second hand smoke".

If some one smokes in your home you throw them out. If someone smokes in your building you throw them out. If someone smokes on campus - _______.

Are you a prisoner in your own home or workplace, avoiding second hand smoke?

Security must help enforce a tobacco free work place. Keep it out of buildings. Keep it off campus. What would you do if you saw security disobeying the policy?

Today, July 10, I witnessed a female driver on the phone and smoking, while stationed in the middle of the road on Girard & Garfield. A very dangerous driver.

do you plan your path to get away from second hand smoke?

Disney to Cut Smoking in Family Films Jul 26, 8:22 AM (ET) By GARY GENTILE

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Walt Disney Co. will eliminate smoking from all its films released under its label and will discourage smoking in films released under its Touchstone and Miramax brands, the company said Wednesday.

Please never smoke around kids.

Cigarette packs may soon carry harsh warnings Labels outlining health risks could be added, pending Senate group decision

Aug 1 came and went. I can breathe better at HSC and I don't have to alter my path to walk around campus.

We see you sneaking behind buildings, getting a smoke in a smoke-free environment. One of the reasons for having a tobacco-free environment is for our health and yours. Please respect the policy and take the smoke off campus (24/7).

Smokers make me sick. Smoke makes us sick.

Harm Perception of Nicotine Products in College Freshmen. This study in the September 2007 issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research examined the association of sociodemographic characteristics and smoking behaviors (i.e., cigarette, cigar, and waterpipe) with nicotine product harm perception in college freshmen. View the abstract:

Huckabee: Bring on national smoking ban

When asked if she agrees with a national ban on smoking, Clinton said yes, but she did not call for federal regulation. Rather, she said localities, counties, and states should ban smoking in public ..

You are to pretty/handsome to be smoking - that smoke destroys your skin, your lungs, and your glow.

I am a temporary employee in the basement of the cancer center. The last time I worked at UNM, I was a student employee; that was four years ago. This morning, I was speaking to a colleague about the smoking ban on north campus. She brought up your name and said that you had written some scathing letters to the Lobo about smokers and their habits on north campus, particularly at the Cancer Center. She also stated that you were instrumental in getting the ban instituted (is this true?"yes"). I remember the days of the groups of smokers outside of the Cancer Center AND those that used to smoke next to the propane tank near the entrance on the first floor, yikes!

Anyhow, I just wanted to extend a "thank you" for your efforts.

Regards, Raymond

Your second hand smoke is killing your child

Key to healthy campus starts with tobacco ban Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: Opinion

You put everyone at risk when you choose to smoke

I am writing in response to Ward Abbott's letter published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday claiming that the smoking ban is not based on scientific proof of threat.

This is an extremely uninformed opinion of a former staff member that needs clarification. Research has shown environmental tobacco smoke to have an effect on anyone exposed to it even in passing. If someone chooses to damage their internal organs, then that is their choice. However, nonsmokers are not given that choice when a smoker is near. It is very difficult to walk around UNM's campus without getting caught in a cloud of smoke at least once a day.

It is a miserable experience for nonsmokers who care about their health to walk out of a building into a group of smokers or have someone standing near them smoking. I have nothing against smokers themselves, just their addiction around those that choose to live a healthy lifestyle.

A different perspective: The soon-to-be mothers at UNM and their developing babies are affected by ETS as well. Research shows that not only first-hand but second-hand smoke affects the growing fetus.

Smokers need to realize that their decision to smoke is affecting more than just themselves. Every person within their proximity when they light up is at risk for the consequences of tobacco. There is plenty of research in modern times to prove the negative effects of tobacco, which no one can argue against. I hope the Board of Regents accepts the proposed ban in facilitating a healthier campus.

Cassie Sprague UNM student

Smart alec's have been change Smoke-Free Campus to Smoke-Freely -- Funny guys.

Also changing No Smoking to Now Smoking.

Destruction of Property

What to do if you see or smell someone smoking on HSC Campuses - Ask them to put out their cigarette. Ask them their name and their supervisors name. Call security.

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