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Discuss “Smokeout or smoke less?”

The objective of CMU Smokeout, a new anti-smoking group on campus, is to raise awareness about the environmental, political, and health-related effects of smoking. The group’s actions, however, go a step further. CMU Smokeout has been working to assist Student Health Services in Healthy Campus 2010, a national initiative designed to make participating college campuses smoke-free by the end of the decade.

Healthy Campus 2010, a program designed by the American College Health Association, “establishes national college health objectives and serves as a basis for developing plans to improve student health,” according to its website.

Eliminating smoking is just one of the program’s initiatives. According to CMU Smokeout president Jared...

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