Boston Magazine Northeastern To Go Smoke-Free Northeastern University announced Monday that its campus will go completely smoke-free beginning fall 2013 in an effort to improve campus-wide health, making it one of the first large Boston colleges to do so. The decision came after months of research, discussion, and polling done by a 10-person committee made up of both faculty and students, […]
Northeastern’s Campus Set to Go Smoke-Free for Fall Five months after Northeastern assembled a committee to explore the possibility of implementing a campus-wide smoke-free policy, the decision has been made to move forward with the ban. This fall, the university will join the more than 1,100 institutions across the country who have taken similar steps. “This new policy reflects Northeastern’s long-standing commitment to promoting […]
Northeastern U. Goes Smoke-Free — Inside And Out WBUR’s Martha Bebinger reports that starting this fall, Northeastern University will join a growing number of college campuses that are smoke-free, both inside and out. Northeastern Dean of Health Sciences Terry Fulmer says going smoke-free will save student’s lives. “If you smoke when you’re younger, you’re more likely to be addicted for life,” Fulmer said. […]
Columbia Journalism Review Climate coverage feels the heat, again Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, called out major news outlets including the Times, Reuters, and the Boston Globe for running native ads in which Philip Morris, the tobacco giant, promotes research around smoke-free products. Most newspapers stopped taking cigarette ads a long time ago; Kennedy argues that they should now “take the next step” and refuse to […]