Really No Smoking (or Chewing)

From the Oakland Tribune: [excerpt]

A systemwide smoking ban at University of California campuses includes the controversial electronic cigarette, a tobacco smoking device whose backers claim is safer than traditional smokes. The ban takes effect Jan. 2 and includes smokeless tobacco, or chew.

About 10 percent of UC employees smoke cigarettes, and 8 percent of students smoke, according to a fact sheet compiled by the university. The information kit does not say how many use the new electronic cigarettes on UC campuses or in the state, but a lobbying group for the retailers who sell the devices says about 4 million people across the country use them.

"We don't know what the long term health affects are," said Josh Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley and a member of the UC committee that wrote the smoking ban...

Full story at http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24452558/uc-pulls-plug-electronic-cigs-systemwide-smoking-ban

Apparently, the old UC anti-smoking rules were too Loose-y...