NWTC Smoking Policy (all campuses)

The College intends to maintain a safe, healthy, and clean learning environment at all times. Tobacco use is generally recognized as an activity with significant negative health, safety, and aesthetic impacts. Therefore, the College needs to place certain restrictions on its use on College property. Tobacco use is primarily smoking but also is defined to include the use of chewing tobacco of any type.

The College views the use of tobacco products on its property as a privilege and not a right. It is the responsibility of the user to adhere to the following operating standard to maintain this privilege in the future.

Operating Standard:

• Tobacco use is restricted to parking lot areas only at the College campuses and regional centers.
• There is no tobacco use in the following parking lots: Student Center Lot, District Lots, Health Sciences Clinic Lot, and Automotive Lot B.
• Where a parking lot is adjacent to a building, there is no smoking within 25 feet of the building as well as being restricted to the parking lot.
• There is no tobacco use in any of the College's buildings or structures under any circumstance.
• Tobacco users are to dispose of all cigarette butts and other tobacco use materials in the proper receptacle. If no receptacle is in the proximity, the individual is to retain the waste until they come upon an appropriate waste receptacle. Cigarette butts are non-biodegradable waste and disposing of butts on the ground is littering which is not permitted.

Facilities Policy
Approved 10/22/01
Revised 5/16/2006

Smoking shelters are being relocated in some cases. The ED shelter is being relocated outside of the MT/AP area (the old patio area). The Sturgeon Bay shelter will be relocated away from the north entrance.

For more information on the smoking hazards, please refer to the Surgeon General's June 27 News Release regarding the effects of secondhand smoke. (http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2004pres/20040527a.html)