Smoke-free and tobacco-free educational session June 29

FIU’s Tobacco-free Campus Steering Committee will host an educational session Tuesday, June 29, to gain support and address concerns about implementing the tobacco-free and smoke-free policy for a proposed date of Jan. 1, 2011. The meeting will be from 3 to 5  p.m. in Wolfe University Center, Room 155, at Biscayne Bay Campus.

According to Rick Botelho, M.D., chair of the steering committee and assistant dean of Faculty and Student Development in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, the university needs the support of both tobacco users and non-tobacco users to launch an educational and social engagement campaign over the next six months.

“We will use this session to gather ideas about creating positive social influence and supports that will help to implement this regulation and better still, reduce the rates of tobacco use within our community,” said Botelho. “We will also provide an update on this regulation and the resources about tobacco cessation services.”