The State : S.F. Campus Bans Smoking

UC San Francisco has become the first campus in the University of California system to ban smoking in all of its buildings, school officials said. “As a premier health-science campus, my God, it seemed only appropriate that we take this step,” university spokeswoman Jane Norton said. The new policy, phased in during the last three months, prohibits the school’s 3,500 graduate students and 6,500 staff and faculty members from lighting up indoors or within 15 feet of building entrances. Norton said the policy will be primarily self-policing. “We’re going to be liberal about it. We’re not going to go around rounding up smokers,” she said.