Tobacco Free Ohio StateFaculty Council Meeting

January 9, 2014

Moving to Tobacco Free

Background

• 2011-Ohio Board of Regents passed Tobacco Free Resolution

• April 2013-Board of Trustees-all OSU campuses go tobacco free

• Implementation committee charge-develop, propose, and lead the implementation of Tobacco Free plan through 2015

• Eight subcommittees formed involving over 100 faculty, staff and students

Moving to Tobacco Free

Background

Assessment and Evaluation

Smaller and Co-located Campuses

Special Populations

Health and Wellness

Students

Facilities and Enforcement

Communications and Engagement

Community Partners

Tobacco Free ProcessBackground

• Considered input from 430 comments (70% positive) and over 800 individuals

• Benchmarked over 30 tobacco and smoke free institutions of higher education

• Engaged with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Tobacco Free College Campus Initiative (TFCCI)

• Involved Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Board of Regents

Tobacco Free Details

• Promoting a healthy environment and encouraging a culture of compliance

• No tobacco use inside or outside, in cars on university property, in parking lots, anywhere that is OSU property and facilities

• Extensive communications plan including signage, student volunteers, wellness ambassadors, university security and police, facilities staff, parking attendants, etc.

• Training kits for supervisors, videos for students, etc.• Assessment plan• Impact on neighborhoods is a special concern

Tobacco Free Details

• Faculty, staff, and students are not required to quit using tobacco products, but they cannot use them on campus

• Culture of Compliance has been a successful strategy at numerous universities• People follow rules• Extensive communications plan• Rely on “peer pressure” and cooperation of our

community• Enforcement remains an option, just like any policy

• Counseling services

Resources

Background

http://tobaccofree.osu.edu/

Ohio State’s new tobacco free policy is one big step in the right direction…..

Interim President

Joseph A. Alutto