14. Why don’t we have designated smoking areas?
As a tobacco- and smoke-free campus, the Guelph campus does not have designated smoking areas.
Research shows that venues with designated smoking areas expose the community to markedly higher levels of second-hand smoke1.
A study from Stanford University2 found that outdoor designated smoking areas where multiple people smoke have toxic air levels equal to indoor spaces where people smoke.
1 World Health Organization. (2003). Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Geneva, Switzerland.
2 Klepeis NE, Ott WR, Switzer P. Real-time measurement of outdoor tobacco smoke particles. J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2007;57:522-534.