Release Date: January 24, 2011 This content is archived.
An article in The New York Times about the decision by City University of New York, the largest urban higher-education system in the nation, to ban smoking on all 23 of its campuses reports last summer UB banned smoking on its three campuses. The article quotes Joseph A. Brennan, associate vice president for university communications, who said professors in the School of Public Health and Health Professions and alumni in the medical profession were "a driving force" behind UB's complete ban.
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