2.15 Smoking and Use of Tobacco Products

Blue Ridge Community College is committed to providing students, employees, and visitors a safe and healthy environment. To address this commitment, smoking and use of tobacco products is prohibited on all College properties including inside any building or facility and on College grounds. Exceptions are only limited to smoking or the use of tobacco products inside the confines of a motor vehicle on College grounds. This shall also be known as the College’s “Tobacco-free Policy.”
For the purposes of this policy, tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, blunts, bidis, pipes, chewing tobacco, snus, snuff, e-cigarettes, and any other items containing or reasonably resembling tobacco or tobacco products, or any product simulating smoking instruments.
The President or his/her designee shall ensure that regulations pertaining to smoking and use of tobacco products are followed.