Article: Campaign to ban smoking loses spark

Maggie Ybarra
University Wire
02-27-2008
(Daily Lobo) (UWIRE) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The campaign to ban smoking at UNM has had trouble picking up steam.

In the fall, the Coalition for a UNM Smoke-Free Campus conducted a survey asking students if they wanted to ban smoking on Main Campus. Only 154 students took the survey, and about 52 percent of them wanted to ban smoking on campus.

And that wasn't enough to convince the Board of Regents.

Regent Don Chalmers said he would like to see more feedback from students before deciding on the issue.

"To me, that's not an overwhelming mandate," he said. "But the regents are there to do what the students or any constituency wants."

Chalmers said most of ...

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