{"id":195599,"date":"2012-06-14T02:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=195599"},"modified":"2012-06-15T02:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T07:40:49","slug":"angelina-college-goes-tobacco-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=195599","title":{"rendered":"Angelina College Goes Tobacco Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=195600\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-195600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/06\/Angelina-College2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Angelina College2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-195600\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN \u2013 Beginning this fall, Angelina College will be tobacco free.  According to the college&#8217;s website, school trustees approved the policy at Monday\u2019s meeting. <\/p>\n<p>The change makes the entire AC campus, including all off-campus centers, 100 percent tobacco-free. Smoking will not be allowed on-campus at any location except within the confines of a private vehicle. This will include the use of \u201ce-cigarettes\u201d and other such devices. <\/p>\n<p>Angelina College president Dr. Larry Phillips said the decision has been pending for quite some time. \u201cWe have been discussing this policy for over a year, and we\u2019ve conferred with both students and faculty members in that time,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cIt is absolutely the right thing to do. A number of colleges and universities around the state are going, or have gone, to tobacco-free environments on-campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips cited input from the Coalition in Angelina County, which conducted surveys of students and other institutions of higher education. Those findings suggested wide-spread support for tobacco-free campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe college has been a non-smoking area in all buildings for quite a while,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cHowever, going completely tobacco-free should promote public health, save lives and save thousands of dollars in campus maintenance costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u2013 Beginning this fall, Angelina College will be tobacco free. According to the college&#8217;s website, school trustees approved the policy at Monday\u2019s meeting. The change makes the entire AC campus, including all off-campus centers, 100 percent tobacco-free. Smoking will not be allowed on-campus at any location except within the confines of a private vehicle. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=195599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angelina College Goes Tobacco Free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 22:11:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195599"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195947,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195599\/revisions\/195947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}