Statement of Purpose
The University of Nevada Las Vegas (性视界传媒) is committed to providing a safe and healthy on-campus learning and work environment for its students, faculty, staff, clients, contractors, vendors, visitors, lessees, and individuals residing on the 性视界传媒 campus.
性视界传媒 acknowledges the multiple negative health impacts of smoking, using electronic smoking devices, and using tobacco products. It also acknowledges that these negative health impacts affect not just individuals who are smoking, using electronic smoking devices, and using tobacco products but also the people who are around them.
Among the many negative health impacts that 性视界传媒 acknowledges and recognizes are that:
- The Surgeon General has determined that tobacco use in any form, active and passive, is a significant health hazard.
- Tobacco smoke contains carcinogens.
- Exposure to secondhand smoke causes disease, including heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, and lung cancer, as well as premature death.
- There is no risk-free level of exposure to second-hand smoke.
- Electronic smoking devices emit disease-causing toxic substances and that exposure to aerosol from electronic smoking devices is tantamount to levels of exposure comparable to those of passive smokers.
- Many of the harmful substances in tobacco smoke are also present in marijuana smoke.
性视界传媒 understands that as of 2017, over 2,000 other universities and colleges across the United States had smoke-free policies in place.
性视界传媒 acknowledges that the American College Health Association encourages colleges and universities to achieve a 100% indoor and outdoor campus-wide tobacco-free environment.
性视界传媒 recognizes that the Nevada Revised Statutes prohibit smoking and using electronic smoking devices inside indoor places of employment, including in government buildings owned or occupied by any component of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE).
性视界传媒 acknowledges that the Nevada Revised Statutes permit additional, voluntarily designation of establishments as smoke-free.
性视界传媒 recognizes that the public policy of the State of Nevada includes restricting tobacco use in public to protect health and safety.
性视界传媒 understands that many of its entities and partner organizations support 性视界传媒 efforts to become a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus and endorse this smoke-free and tobacco-free campus policy. Letters of support from these entities and partner organizations demonstrate this endorsement.
Therefore, 性视界传媒 adopts this smoke-free and tobacco-free campus policy.
Entities Affected by this Policy
All 性视界传媒 entities.
Who Should Read this Policy
All 性视界传媒 Faculty, Staff, Students, Clients, Contractors, Vendors, Visitors, Lessees, and Individuals Residing on the 性视界传媒 Campus.
Policy
- Smoking, using electronic smoking devices, or using other tobacco products is prohibited on any 性视界传媒 campus, as the term is defined in this policy.
- All 性视界传媒 faculty, staff, students, clients, contractors, vendors, visitors, lessees and individuals residing on the 性视界传媒 campus must comply with this policy at all times.
- All 性视界传媒 faculty, staff, and students must advise contractors, vendors, visitors, lessees, and individuals residing on the 性视界传媒 campus of this policy.
- Neither 性视界传媒 nor any entity operating on the 性视界传媒 campus is permitted to sell, market, or promote tobacco products or marijuana products. Tobacco-related and marijuana-related advertising and sponsorship are prohibited on the 性视界传媒 campus, at 性视界传媒-sponsored events, and in publications produced by 性视界传媒 except advertising in a newspaper or magazine not produced by 性视界传媒 that is lawfully sold, bought, or distributed on 性视界传媒 property.
- This policy shall become effective at the start of the first academic semester that begins 90 days or more after this policy is adopted and the posting and notification required in Section 6 of this policy are completed to allow those who smoke or use tobacco products time to adapt to its restrictions and to facilitate a smooth transition to a smoke-free and tobacco-free environment.
- Copies of this policy shall be posted on the 性视界传媒 website and included in handbooks, catalogs, and in recruitment materials for students, staff, and faculty. Signs that indicate that 性视界传媒 prohibits smoking, using electronic smoking devices, and using of other tobacco products on the 性视界传媒 campus shall be posted on the 性视界传媒 campus, including at all 性视界传媒 building entrances and along 性视界传媒 campus sidewalks, paths, landscaped areas, parking lots, fields, recreational areas, and stadiums. Signs shall also direct readers to an available cessation resource.
- Individuals are encouraged to inform others about the policy respectfully to enhance awareness of the policy and to promote compliance.
- 性视界传媒 is committed to supporting all faculty, staff, and students who want to cease smoking or using tobacco products. The Nevada Tobacco Quitline is available to 性视界传媒 students and employees for free to assist with cessation. Additional cessation assistance for faculty and staff may be available through 性视界传媒-sponsored health insurance plans and for students through the Student Wellness Center and Counseling and Psychological Services. More cessation resources are listed in the 鈥淩elated Documents鈥 section of this policy.
- 性视界传媒 shall establish and maintain a website that contains information about the impacts of smoking and tobacco use and cessation resources that will be available to faculty, staff, and students. In addition, the Student Wellness Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, Faculty and Staff Treatment Center, and the Office of Human Resources shall provide information about available cessation resources to any member of the campus community seeking such information.
- The Office of Student Conduct shall address violations of this policy by students. Supervisors shall address violations of this policy by employees. The Office of Student Conduct and Supervisors shall address a first violation of this policy by a student or employee through education about this policy and about smoking and tobacco-use. Violations of this policy may result in verbal warning or written documentation of violations of 性视界传媒 policy for employees and students.
- Exempt from this policy is burning tobacco on the 性视界传媒 campus as part of university-sponsored activities by cultural or religious groups for ceremonial purposes and in compliance with state and federal law, which includes the ceremonial burning of tobacco by American Indians. All tobacco burning under this exemption must be approved by the 性视界传媒 Office of the Executive Vice President & Provost before the tobacco is burned.
Contacts
Definitions
- Electronic Smoking Device
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Any product containing or delivering nicotine or any other substance intended for human consumption that can be used by a person in any manner for the purpose of inhaling vapor or aerosol from the product. 鈥淓lectronic smoking device鈥 includes any such devices, whether they are manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookahs, vape pens, or under any other product name or descriptor.
- Marijuana Product
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All parts, whether growing or not, of a plant in the genus Cannabis, the plant鈥檚 seeds, or the plant鈥檚 resin extract and every manufacture, derivative, mixture, compound, salt, or preparation of the plant, the plant鈥檚 seeds, or the plant鈥檚 resin extract.
- Marijuana-Related
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Using a brand, corporate name, trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable pattern or colors, or any other indicia of product identical to, similar to, or identified with, those used for any marijuana product or company that manufactures, produces, or distributes a marijuana product.
- Smoking
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Inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, pipe, hookah, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, including marijuana, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. 鈥淪moking鈥 also includes the use of an electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device.
- Tobacco Product
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Any product containing, made, or derived from tobacco that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means. 鈥淭obacco product鈥 includes but is not limited to: cigarettes; clove cigarette; cigars; little cigars; pipe tobacco; dry snuff; moist snuff/chewing tobacco; snus; dissolvables; hookah; blunt wraps; and any other preparation of tobacco. 鈥淭obacco product鈥 also includes any product or formulation of matter containing biologically active amounts of nicotine manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or otherwise distributed with the expectation that its product or matter will be introduced into the human body by inhalation, ingestion, or absorption. 鈥淭obacco product鈥 excludes any cessation product specifically approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in treating nicotine or tobacco dependence.
- Tobacco-Related
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Using a tobacco brand, corporate name, trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable pattern or colors, or any other indicia of product identical to, similar to, or identified with, those used for any brand of tobacco product or company that manufactures a tobacco product.
- 性视界传媒 Campus
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All properties, facilities, structures, and vehicles owned, leased, rented, occupied, operated, or controlled by 性视界传媒 or NSHE as part of its 性视界传媒 operations in any location, whether indoors or outdoors. 鈥溞允咏绱 campus鈥 includes all enclosed spaces, such as buildings, offices, classrooms, hallways, waiting rooms, meeting venues, community areas, performance venues, and private residential spaces within 性视界传媒 housing for students or others. 鈥溞允咏绱 campus鈥 also includes all grounds, walkways, sidewalks, streets, paths, landscaped areas, parking lots, fields, recreational areas, stadiums, and personal vehicles that are on campus.