Hopkins Kicks Butts to roll out campus smoking cessation resources
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on Hopkins Kicks Butts’ plans for smoking-cessation resources and changes to campus tobacco policies.
- The News-Letter reported that students in Hopkins Kicks Butts were working with administrators on a program to help University affiliates quit smoking.
- The paper reported that a 622-response survey conducted by the SGA found that about 75 percent of respondents supported some restriction on campus tobacco use.
- The article says Aspen Williams warned that contract workers hired through companies such as Allied Universal and Bon Appétit are not included in the University’s definition of “University affiliate,” so they would not automatically receive the resources.
- The reporter writes that program planners met with Dean Smita Ruzicka and Human Resources director Meredith Stewart on Nov. 16; Stewart said administrators had found a tentative vendor, and Julie Awad said a contract was expected by March at the latest.
- The article adds that the planned program would offer a helpline and in-person help, including nicotine patches.
- According to the article, Hopkins Kicks Butts collected 75 signatures for a smoke-free-campus pledge and launched an honor system in which students remind people when they are violating the current smoking policy.