RWU Revamps Smoking Policy

BRISTOL, RI - The student affairs department at Roger Williams University has
taken serious strides to reducing the number of cigarette consumption on
campus. Last spring semester they implemented a smoking policy that punished
both students and staff from smoking in areas outside the designated smoking
area. These isolated areas consist of gazebos and parking lots.   
    The immediate improvement was far from seen. The weak policy regulation
and minuscule consequences resulted in smokers continuing their regular
habits. Rather then giving up regulating smokers the student affairs council
went back to the drawing board to revamp the policy. The new action taken on
smoking violators is far more severe. There is no longer a warning. Instead an
immediate 50$ fine and a hour of community service. Multi offenders are
slapped with a 100$ fine.
    "There are no longer people lined up outside of academic buildings or
residence halls smoking. There is much, much less public smoking happening
across campus. There has been a reduction of cigarette butts littering the
campus and the smoking gazebos that we used as designated smoking areas are
getting very heavy use," said John King the RWU Director of Student Affairs.