{"id":2,"date":"2024-04-01T19:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:09:29","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/","title":{"rendered":"MTSU Tobacco Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MTSU Going Tobacco-Free\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tgnsx8ORTfU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><h2 class=\"null2\" style=\", sans-serif;font-weight: 700;line-height: 1.1em;margin: 30px 0px 5px;font-size: 1.5em;font-style: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">Policy Specifics<\/h2><ul style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><li style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\">The policy will restrict the use of all forms of tobacco products including, but not limited to, cigarettes, pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff, as well as smokeless electronic cigarettes and other similar devices.\u00a0<\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\">It allows the use of tobacco products in private vehicles on campus.\u00a0<\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">The policy went into effect July 1, 2011, but implementation is delayed until Jan. 1, 2012, to allow a transition period and to provide support to those wishing to cease tobacco usage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">Tennessee law already prohibits smoking in all buildings owned or operated by the state, which includes any University-owned or leased facilities, vehicles, and athletic venues.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">Previous policy previously allowed smoking 20 feet away from doorways, windows, ventilation systems, walkways, and gates.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"null2\" style=\", sans-serif;font-weight: 700;line-height: 1.1em;margin: 30px 0px 5px;font-size: 1.5em;font-style: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><\/h2><h2 class=\"null2\" style=\", sans-serif;font-weight: 700;line-height: 1.1em;margin: 30px 0px 5px;font-size: 1.5em;font-style: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span class=\"calloutTitle\">Why is MTSU Tobacco-Free?<\/span><\/h2><ul style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: 0px;, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">We at MTSU are not alone in making such a move. More than 400 colleges and universities across the nation are completely smoke-free on campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">Across the state, universities like Austin Peay, Tennessee Tech, and East Tennessee State have enacted similar policies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">We feel this policy is not about denying rights; it&#8217;s about promoting and creating a healthy environment for all.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">We are not focusing on tobacco users as much as we are focusing on a behavior in public spaces we all share. Individuals can still use tobacco in their cars and at off-campus locations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li class=\"null3\" style=\"line-height: inherit;padding-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 20px\"><span class=\"null3\">Student Health Services has reported treating students with asthma and other respiratory illnesses whose conditions are triggered by outdoor exposure to second-hand smoke.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Specifics The policy will restrict the use of all forms of tobacco products including, but not limited to, cigarettes, pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff, as well as smokeless electronic cigarettes and other similar devices.\u00a0 It allows the use of tobacco products in private vehicles on campus.\u00a0 The policy went into effect July 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-bannernosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}