After meeting with the deputy vice chancellor Ian Town last week it seems that progress toward a campus wide smoking ban is going ahead.
The stages toward this end involve much discussion with Facilities Management to seek out potential sites for smoking areas. A reality may be that this is simply not viable, meaning the entire campus could be smoke free!
The policy does not require the University Council's vote, simply it would seek its endorsement. Ian Town says he expects some dissent to arise from the policy but the benefits would far outweigh the negatives.
Such a ban would include the UCSA area of campus and the Common Room. When asked about the possible implications for the Common Room's already struggling business, Mr Town was upbeat suggesting that some new customers may come who at the moment are not because of smokers.
It will be reasonably slow going because it is such an all encompassing policy but Town says that we can expect some concrete policy being implemented in the early stages of next year.
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Do you guys all share the same keyboard? The posts should really have the author's names on them. It's mentioned that "the benefits would far outweigh the negatives", what negatives? Banning smoking will only make it cooler, I'm not a smoker, but I think I'll take it up if it's banned.
Btw, when was the last time Town heard someone say "Let's not go to the Common Room, there are smokers there!". And referring to our bar as 'The Common Room' is really out of touch, we call it The Foundry; that common room survey will agree with me on that. But hey, the results will speak for themselves, why don't you guys publish the survey results online and prove me wrong?
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