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University Of Kentucky Bans Tobacco On Campus

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center has banned all smoking on campus.

The University of Kentucky imposed a strict tobacco-free policy Thursday that applies everywhere on the sprawling campus in Lexington. The ban includes chewing tobacco, pipes, cigars and snuff – as well as cigarettes and expands a 2006 ban on smoking in buildings and within 20 feet of buildings.

Kentucky is the nation's leading producer of burley tobacco, an ingredient in cigarettes.

The university’s College of Agriculture advises tobacco growers and raises tobacco on its own farms for research.

The campus is also home to a research center seeking new commercial uses for tobacco.

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