Snuff the smokes: USC-Beaufort to be tobacco-free

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina-Beaufort campus is going tobacco-free January 1st – the latest college campus in the nation’s fifth-largest tobacco-growing state to do so.

The Beaufort Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1rsopZ6 ) that at least 10 other colleges and universities in the state already prohibit tobacco products anywhere on campus.

The USC-Beaufort ban will include chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes.

USC’s main campus in Columbia banned tobacco a year ago while USC-Aiken will do so next year.

Currently at Beaufort, tobacco is banned only in campus buildings, within 25 feet of building entrances and in several designated outdoor seating areas.

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Information from: The Beaufort Gazette, http://www.beaufortgazette.com