Who Supports Tobacco-Free Campus Policy?
The American Lung Association in Oregon is partnering with organizations around the state in support of tobacco-free campus policy for healthful, accessible college environments. The following list demonstrates the broad-based campus and community support for colleges making their campuses tobacco-free. (Click on links for letters of support or position statements, where applicable).
NATIONAL
- American College Health Association
- American Lung Association
- Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Campus Policy, Ozarks Technical College
- Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
OREGON
- American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association
- American Lung Association in Oregon
- Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
- Oregon College Health Association
- Oregon DHS/Addictions and Mental Health Division
- Oregon Multicultural Tobacco Prevention & Education Council
- Oregon PTA
- Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program
EXAMPLES OF LOCAL CAMPUS & COMMUNITY SUPPORT
- Commission on Children & Families (Lincoln County; Oregon Coast CC is now tobacco-free)
- County Department of Human Services and Community Organizations (Clackamas County)
- Faculty Federation leader (PCC)
- Head Start (Lane County)
- Nursing Faculty (Southwestern Oregon CC)
- K-12 School District Superintendents (South Coast - SOCC)
- Student comments (from Mt. Hood CC, tobacco-free starting January 2010)
- Student / former smoker (from Portland CC, tobacco-free as of 9/9/09)
- Student with asthma (Clatsop CC)
OREGON EDITORIALS
- The ‘O’ is not an ashtray: UO can be first tobacco-free Pac-10 campus (Register Guard, 5/28/09)
- Breathing easy on another Oregon campus (The Oregonian, 5/27/09)
- PCC leads the way against tobacco on campus (The Oregonian, 2/20/09)
- It's not a matter of if, but of when (Daily Astorian, 8/21/08)
- The Case for a Tobacco-Free Campus (The Oregonian, 4/16/08)
FROM OTHER TOBACCO-FREE COLLEGES & COLLEGE HEALTH ADVOCATES
- Clark College - Letter from Clark College president sharing their tobacco-free campus success story and offering support to Oregon colleges
- Western Technical College Student Government - Letter to student government leaders about WTC's experience going tobacco-free.
- "It's Time," Community College Journal (2003) - Article by a health educator at Holyoke Community College calling for elimination of smoking from college campuses.