Smoking and Tobacco Use Policy

Applies to: All faculty, staff, students, visitors, and contractors of Pittsburg State University.

Policy:

Pittsburg State University strives to provide a safe, healthy and respectful working and learning environment for its faculty, staff, students, visitors, and contractors. To support this commitment, Pittsburg State University will provide a tobacco-free environment. Tobacco use is prohibited in or on all university owned, operated or leased property including vehicles. Tobacco is defined as all tobacco-derived or containing products, including and not limited to, cigarettes (e.g., clove, bidis, kreteks), electronic cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos, hookah smoked products, pipes, and oral tobacco (e.g., spit and spitless tobacco, smokeless, chew, snuff, snus) and any product intended to mimic tobacco products. This policy also includes any newly devised tobacco or nicotine delivery products promoted by tobacco industries that are not recognized as cessation devices by the Food and Drug Administration.