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Tobacco Free
Richmond Community College is committed to providing its employees, students, and visitors with a safe and healthy environment. Richmond also recognizes the use of tobacco products on campus grounds is disadvantageous to the health and safety of its students, staff, faculty and visitors. Richmond also recognizes that it has the legal authority to prohibit tobacco use pursuant to G.S. 143-599.
Richmond Community College sites will become tobacco-free effective January 1, 2010. While parking lots will be considered tobacco-free, this policy will not adhere to a person's tobacco use inside a personally-owned vehicle. Tobacco use cessation classes and other assistance will continue at Richmond Community College through the NC Health and Wellness Trust in collaboration with FirstHealth until the end of the grant in 2010. Sustaining and supporting this change is a college-wide effort. Therefore, everyone at Richmond Community College is responsible for enforcing this policy and ensuring its success.
Quitline NC http://www.quitlinenc.com/
NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund http://www.healthwellnc.com/
Tobacco-Free Colleges http://www.tobaccofreecollegesnc.com/
Quit Now NC! http://www.quitnownc.org/
American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
American Cancer Society (Smokeless Tobacco and How to Quit) http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ped/content/ped_10_13x_quitting_smokeless_tobacco.asp
Quit Smokeless http://www.quitsmokeless.org/
American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body; causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general. The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 438,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths, each year in the United States. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.
Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention