Hi Meg, Our revised smoking policy (which is smoke and tobacco free campus) includes e-cigarettes in the ban. I'm providing the appropriate policy statement, the definitions and the policy link.
*All students, staff, faculty, and visitors are prohibited from smoking and using, selling, free distributing, and advertising tobacco products and electronic cigarettes in all facilities and on all University property.* *Tobacco product **Any product containing, made, or derived from tobacco that are intended for human consumption, whether chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means, or any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product, including but not limited to, cigarettes; cigars; little cigars; cheroots; stogies; periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other smoking tobacco; snuff; snuff flour; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing tobacco; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco, and other kinds and forms of tobacco. Tobacco products exclude any tobacco product that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a tobacco cessation product, a tobacco dependence product, or for other medical purposes, and is being marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose. **Electronic cigarette **Any oral device that provides a vapor of liquid nicotine, lobelia, and/or other substance, and the use or inhalation of which simulates smoking. The term shall include any such devices, whether they are manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, or under any other product name or descriptor. * http://www.policy.umn.edu/Policies/Operations/Safety/SMOKETOBACCO.html Michele On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Resue, Margaret <[email protected]> wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > Does anyone have a policy that addresses the 'new smokeless cigarettes' on > campus or more specifically in class? Since our current policy does not > cover the 'new electronic' cigarettes, students are pushing the envelope by > 'smoking' on these during classes to the distraction of other students and > their professors. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Meg Resue > > Sr Executive Assistant, Institutional Compliance > > Gloucester County College > > 856-415-2101 > > [email protected] > > > > ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the > reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE e-listing of members. If you do NOT > want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual > who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of > their original e-mail). > > If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to > this web address and fill out the form. We will remove you from the list > within 24 hours during normal business hours. > > http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html > -- Michele Gross, Director University Policy Program University of Minnesota 356-1 McNamara, 200 Oak street Minneapolis, MN 55454 612-624-8081 http://policy.umn.edu/
