More Law Schools Adopt Completely Smoke-Free Campuses

Most law schools already prohibit smoking in and near buildings, but a growing number are going completely smoke-free.

At least five law schools already ban smoking anywhere on campus, and three more are adopting campuswide smoking bans, the National Law Journal reports. Most schools rely on self-policing.

University of Arkansas law school spokesman Andy Albertson said a few people ignore the rules, but on the whole the self-policing approach is working. “We more or less rely on peer pressure and the fact that this is a university policy," Albertson told the NLJ. "By and large, that works."

One law school going completely smoke-free, Widener University School of Law, is asking faculty members to hand out small cards next academic year that warn of the upcoming smoking ban. Those who don’t obey the new rules could be fined, law dean Linda Ammons told the NLJ.

The other two law schools adopting new smoking bans are the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and the University of Florida Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Fla., the story says.

Besides Arkansas, four other law schools adopted complete smoking bans last year. They include the University of Iowa College of Law, the Oklahoma City University School of Law, and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law at Bloomington and Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, the story says.