{"id":1873,"date":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/mtsus-tobacco-free-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:23:45","slug":"mtsus-tobacco-free-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/mtsus-tobacco-free-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"MTSU&#8217;s Tobacco-Free Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>MTSU has joined approximately 250 institutions of higher education across the country in becoming a tobacco-free campus. Effective January 1, 2012, MTSU policy prohibits the use of all forms of tobacco products anywhere on University grounds.<\/p>\n<p>A tobacco-free campus helps provide a healthier living, working, and learning environment. It also improves the overall campus aesthetic\u2014the litter of cigarette butts and smokeless tobacco containers can often be a blight on the campus\u2019s appearance. The University\u2019s commitment to preparing graduates who are in demand by companies and organizations is also a factor. As health care costs escalate, more companies are asking about the tobacco use of current and potential employees.<\/p>\n<p>The transition to a tobacco-free campus will be worth the short-term obstacles. Good health is essential to fully meeting one\u2019s academic and professional potential. MTSU is proactively addressing the number-one health risk in the U.S. and creating a more vibrant environment for its next 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, finalized six months ago, was implemented January 1 to allow time for educating the MTSU community about the new policy and for the University to provide support to those wishing to cease tobacco use.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information and cessation resources can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree\/\">http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/tobaccofree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTSU has joined approximately 250 institutions of higher education across the country in becoming a tobacco-free campus. Effective January 1, 2012, MTSU policy prohibits the use of all forms of tobacco products anywhere on University grounds. A tobacco-free campus helps provide a healthier living, working, and learning environment. It also improves the overall campus aesthetic\u2014the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}