Berry CollegeAll 27,000 acres of the world's largest college campus, Berry College in Rome, Ga., will become tobacco free beginning Aug. 1, 2015, according to a statement from the school.
This policy will apply to all employees, students, contractors and guests in the interest of the health and well-being of the campus community, college officials said. The tobacco-free policy includes e-cigarettes, "vaping" and chewing tobacco.
"Residential colleges should set the standard for healthy community behavior," college President Steve Briggs said in the statement. "Berry bears a responsibility to foster healthy decisions consistent with long-established medical evidence."
"Addictive habits acquired early in life can be punishing to overcome," Briggs said.