Designated Smoke Shelters

Linn-Benton keeping the air smoke free

This fall Linn-Benton Community College will be filled with new students eager to learn. Prior to this journey there is a policy that needs to be formalized: smoke in designated areas.

There are six smoke shelters located around campus: two in front of Takena Hall, one west of White Oak Hall, one east of Luckiamute Center, one in parking lot No. 5, and one outside McKenzie Hall.

Smoke shelters aren’t just for smoking cigarettes. They’re also the designated vaping, e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco shelters.

Students are prohibited from smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vape pens, and chewing tobacco anywhere else on campus except in the designated areas.

According to the Administrative Rule No. 5045-02, “LBCC is committed to a healthy campus which minimizes the potential negative impact of products used in smoking, vaping, and tobacco chewing. These rules pertain to limiting tobacco use and products used in e-cigarettes and other smoking devices in public places and work spaces except those designated as smoking areas. The purpose of the Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act and the Tobacco-Free Campus Executive Order is to reduce the health hazard to persons in confined public places inhaling smoke and vapor caused by tobacco and other vaping products.”

The next time the nicotine urge arises, remember the six designated smoking shelters.