After initially including only combustible tobacco products like cigarettes, cigars and hookahs in a “smoke-free” campus policy set to go in effect July 1, Duke has now added e-cigarettes and vaping products to the ban.
Duke’s experts had reviewed a “growing body of evidence” about potential health dangers associated with vaping since the original policy was announced. That included the Center For Disease Control’s recognition of a newly identified disease, e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI), according to an email sent to students [...]