Have you heard the healthy news?  Lynn University will become a smoke free campus fall semester 2016.

The American College Health Association adopted a “no tobacco use” policy and encourages colleges and universities to be diligent in their efforts to achieve a 100-percent indoor and outdoor campus-wide tobacco-free environment. 

This fall, Lynn University will join nearly 1,500 colleges and universities in becoming a tobacco-free campus. The move goes into effect Aug. 1, 2016, and is intended to safeguard the well-being of our students, employees and the community at large. Further information, including the university’s formal policy on a smoke-free environment, is available online.

Did you know …
• Tobacco smoking is the nation’s leading preventable cause of premature death and disability, according to the Surgeon General of the United States.
• Tobacco smoke is hazardous to the health of smokers and non-smokers alike.
• Other tobacco products, including chewing and pipe tobacco and hookahs are just as harmful and addictive as cigarettes. 
• Hookah smoke is at least as toxic as cigarette smoke. 

Quit the habit
Lynn is committed to supporting all employees and students who wish to stop using tobacco or nicotine products. 
• People who quit smoking, regardless of their age, have substantial gains in life expectancy compared with those who continue to smoke.
• Smokers who quit before age 40 reduced their chance of dying prematurely from smoking-related diseases by about 90 percent.
• Individuals who quit by age 45-54 reduce chances of dying prematurely by about two-thirds.