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Support for policies prohibiting smoking and the use of tobacco products on Oregon State University s Corvallis campus grew substantially over a five-year span, especially among tobacco users, a recent OSU study found.
The study, published earlier this month in the journal
Preventive Medicine, is unique in its analysis of support for smoke- and tobacco-free campus policies over a long period of time. Most other studies of attitudes toward smoking policies only assess a single point in time. Tobacco-free policies are one of the most effective things we can do to reduce the burden of tobacco use, and they are highly supported and growing in popularity, said Marion Ceraso, co-author on the study and an associate professor of practice and Extension Specialist in OSU s College of Public Health and Human Sciences.