U.S. Colleges: Ban Cigarette Smoking on Campus

More and more college campuses are adopting a 100 percent smoke-free or tobacco-free environment.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 45 million American adults are smokers. Meanwhile, the number of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke is 126 million. Notice a discrepancy?

This issue has the attention of 290 college campuses across the country, and as a result they have enacted 100 percent smoke-free or tobacco-free policies. This movement should be adopted by ALL 6,742 universities. Why? Because 46,000 non-smokers die from heart disease related deaths every year. Not to mention the total costs of extra medical care, illness, and death caused by secondhand smoke is over $10 billion per year.

Help us change this. Sign and share this petition to have your school become a 100 percent smoke free environment. Trust us your lungs will thank you.

Upon receiving 46,000 signatures (one for every person killed each year because of secondhand smoke), we will email all that signed this petition a PDF of the signatures to hand-deliver to their college or university president.

-DoSomething.org