College plans to ban tobacco

BUTTE – Montana Tech is gearing up to be a tobacco-free campus.

Montana Tech Chancellor Frank Gilmore sent a campus-wide e-mail this week announcing cigarette smoking and chewing tobacco would be banned, starting July 1, 2010, anywhere on campus.

The campus already has a smoking ban in all of its buildings, including dormitories.

Gilmore said the new policy would also make it illegal to use tobacco products in a personal vehicle parked on campus.