Marshall to study smoking ban or limit on campus

Marshall University plans to study limiting or banning smoking on its campus following the adoption of a tobacco ban at West Virginia University. Tobacco use on WVU's main campus in Morgantown will be banned effective July 1, 2013. Marshall Chief of Staff Matt Turner tells The Herald-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/nzOvU5 ) that WVU's ban probably will bring the issue more to the forefront at other institutions, including Marshall.

Turner says Marshall President Stephen Kopp has asked the student government to look at a tobacco or smoking ban. Student body president Ray Harrell says student government will look at what peer institutions are doing, along with other schools in West Virginia.