Universities & Polytechnics

Under the Smokefree Amendment  schools and early childhood centres are required to be 100% smokefree indoors and outdoors, 24 hours a day.  Tertiary institutions such as universities and polytechnics are covered by the smokefree provisions to the extent that they fall within the smokefree law’s protections for:

• indoor workplaces (eg, office, lecture theatre or cafeteria)
• indoor licensed premises (eg, on-campus bar) or
• part of the premises that are used as an early childhood centre (eg, an on-campus crèche).

(Source: MoH)

However there is increasing pressure on universities & polytechnics to implement total bans on smoking covering their entire campuses.

• Otago Polytechnic, 31 May 2010
• University of Auckland, 1 January 2010
• Massey University, November 2007
• http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/smokefree-2010University of Canterbury, March 2007

Resources

• Guide for a tobacco-free campus, ASH Australia, February 2009
• Results of ASH Australia 2007 survey of tobacco policies of Australian universities