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Selected news items about anti-smoke laws

• WI’s Walker wants public employees who light up to pay up
  Wisconsin Reporter, February 21, 2013

• UW-Stout monitors remind smokers of campus policy [PDF]
  

  Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis., Nov.5, 2012

• It Seems to Me: UW-Stout a leader in anti-tobacco efforts [PDF]
  Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis., April 26, 2012
  Doug Mell clarifies several issues in response to a Leader-Telegram editorial.
  
  
• Editorial: There should be a
  better way to curb campus smoking  [PDF]
  Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis., April 23, 2012
  UW-Stout’s plan to have students monitor activity is questioned.
  
  
• UW-Stout students to police campus tobacco ban  [PDF]
  Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis., April 20, 2012
  Monitoring, instead of fines, will begin in the fall.
  
  
• UW-Stout trying pilot program to help with tobacco ban enforcement
  WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Wis., April 20, 2012
  
  
• UW-Stout to hire monitors to try to stop smoking on campus
  WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Wis., April 20, 2012
  
  
• Puff patrol blows into UW-Stout
  Dunn County News, Menomonie, Wis., April 20, 2012
  
  
• UW-Eau Claire finalizes new smoking policy
  WQOW TV 18, Eau Claire, Wis., April 19, 2012
  
  
• Where there’s smoke, are there fines?
  Dunn County News, Menomonie, Wis., April 17, 2012
  UW-Stout considers stricter enforcement of tobacco ban.
  
  
• Task force exploring interest in tobacco-free UWO
  UW-Oshkosh Today, April 12, 2012
  
  
• UW-Stout students could be fined for using tobacco on campus  [PDF]
  Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis., April 11, 2012
  University may step up enforcement of the ban.
  
  
• UW-Stout may start smoking fines come fall
  WEAU TV 13, Eau Claire, Wis., April 11, 2012
  

  University may step up enforcement against tobacco ban violators.

• UW-Eau Claire drafting new tobacco policy in light of contradiction  [PDF]
  Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 2, 2012
  UW-Stout has a campuswide tobacco ban.
  
  
• Anti-smoke laws 'have direct effect'
  IrishHealth.com
  A new European study has confirmed the theory that the greater the restrictions placed on smoking, the lower the consumption of tobacco products and exposure to passive smoke.
  

Selected news items about UW-Stout's tobacco-free campus:

• Editorial: UW-Stout smoking ban worth studying
  Press-Gazette, Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 8, 2010
  University has set “the bar high for other state-run college campuses.”

• A big snub to student smoking in Wisconsin
  State Journal, Madison, Wis., Sept. 1, 2010
  New tobacco-free policy at UW-Stout is another sign that smoking is “heading for the ashtray of history.”

• UW-Stout goes smoke free: Will others follow suit?
  WKOW TV 2, Madison, Wis., Sept. 1, 2010
  Madison College also has banned tobacco products from hits campus.

• Campus connection: UW-Stout campus now tobacco-free
  Capital Times, Madison, Wis., Sept. 2, 2010

• UW-Stout becomes first four-year university within the UW System to go tobacco-free
  SmokeFree Wisconsin blog, Madison, Wis., Aug. 31, 2010

The decision to become a tobacco-free campus has received extensive coverage in area and national media. You can read more stories at "UW-Stout in the News."