STUDENT DEVELOPMENT

Social Policies and Regulations: Smoking

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Philosophy Statement

In the interest of providing a safe and healthy environment for students, employees, and visitors, Kalamazoo College supports the spirit and legal requirements of the Michigan Clean Indoor Air Act and the protection that legislation affords nonsmokers. We trust that our faculty, staff, and students will work together in all campus facilities to insure clean air for those who choose not to smoke or be subjected to the health hazards of secondhand smoke.

Policy Statement

Smoking or burning incense (or other materials) is prohibited in all Kalamazoo College facilities, except as noted in the succeeding provisions. No tobacco products or non-published merchandise promoting the use of tobacco products will be sold on College grounds. Smoking is not permitted in:

1. Any classroom, administration, or athletic building
2. College owned vehicles that are a part of the College's motor pool.
3. Residence Halls and Living Learning Houses; Smoking is prohibited in all private rooms and public areas of all residential facilities. Residents are responsible for holding one another and guests accountable to the policy by confronting violators before getting the Residential Life staff involved, though any student would have the option of charging another with a violation of this policy with the following sanctions:
   - 1st violation - one quarter of Level I Probation
   - 2nd violation - two quarters of Level I Probation, ten (10) community restitution hours to include clean up of indoor and outdoor smoking areas in the vicinity
   -3rd violation - removal from the residential system.

Smoking is permitted in:

1. Non-student residential units owned or rented by the College.
2. The separate and externally ventilated dining area in the southeast corner of the New Welles student dining center.

With respect to smoking outside of campus buildings, freestanding ashtrays will be placed away from pedestrian entrances and exits and, where possible, smoking will be confined to designated entrance/exit locations.

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