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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017 College tobacco policy focuses on education, being neighborly Smoking is already restricted By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian The Clatsop Community College Board once again sent a tobacco-free policy back to the drawing board over con- cerns of truth in advertising and to add stronger language about prevention and education. Board members voted to rename the proposed pol- icy “tobacco-restrictive,” as it allows smoking in good-neigh- bor zones designated by cam- puses. Tobacco use on campus is already restricted to desig- nated areas. The new policy encour- ages individuals to promote compliance and tobacco ces- sation. “College employees are expected to support indi- viduals becoming tobacco free and to promote compliance in their areas of responsibility and on the college’s campuses,” according to the policy. College President Christo- pher Breitmeyer said cessation education efforts are almost nonexistent. He recommended adopting the policy “with the knowledge that we will be developing some very active interventions for folks who do smoke, and also for those stu- Clatsop Community College Clatsop Community College has struggled to craft a to- bacco-free policy. dents who have the very real issue of that addiction.” “It doesn’t really have legs,” said board member Esther Moberg, requesting more lan- guage be added about preven- tion and education. Breitmeyer agreed to work on the language and bring the policy back to the college board in December. Board member Tessa Scheller was the lone “no” vote on the name change and con- tinued her criticism of the pol- icy for not banning smoking on campus outright. “All peoples are welcome here,” she said. “Bad habits are not. Things that can lead to the injury of other people, they just can’t be tolerated, in my opinion.” In June, the college board voted unanimously to send a proposed tobacco-free pol- icy back to the drawing board because of loopholes allowing people to smoke in cars and on the fringes of campus. The college can prohibit smoking in cars on its property, Breitmeyer said Tuesday, and is planning the good-neighbor zones in the upper parking lot of the main campus and along Liberty Lane at the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station. A council of college rep- resentatives has been helping Breitmeyer craft the policy. The council members brought the policy back to the college board over concerns not with a tobacco-free campus, but with the implementation, he said. Several staffers provided argu- ments on behalf of the zones. Angela Martin, a grant accounting specialist with the college, said it has modeled its policy after Portland Com- munity College, one of the first community colleges in the state to make campuses tobac- co-free, along with good-neigh- bor zones. “While we know that smok- ing is bad, we also know your policy will not curb all smok- ing, all smokers from smok- ing,” Martin said. Rinda Johansen, a program assistant with Lives in Tran- sition, said the college does not have the staff to enforce a smoke-free campus without the zones. Technical Services Special- ist Mariah Manners said she doesn’t want to tell students to leave campus or have them smoking on surrounding side- walks, trails and in the woods. Anatomy and Physiology instructor Nichole Warwick said she worked in Towler Hall during a short-lived previous campuswide ban and had to walk past smokers on the side- walk with her asthma inhaler. She and others remembered the time someone dumped dis- carded cigarette butts on a pre- vious vice president’s desk. “My idea would be to have a safe area for students to smoke, if they’re in crisis,” Warwick said. Lawmakers look to help first-time homebuyers the state that year, but by last year, they accounted for only about 28.8 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Offering the tax exemp- tion would cost the state nearly $4 million in income tax rev- enue, according to an analy- sis in March by consultants Lisa Sturevant and Dean Bel- las and commissioned by Ore- gon Realtors. The program would ulti- mately boost first-time home purchases and result in posi- tive gains to the statewide econ- omy, the consultants concluded. Farther down the line, the eco- nomic prosperity could trans- late into greater income tax rev- enue from additional jobs in the construction industry. The study estimated that more than 3,200 Oregonians would start one of the savings accounts, and that at least 161 of those households would purchase a newly-built home in the first five years of the program. The state could expect a $1.26 return for every dollar it invested, the consul- tants estimated. Detractors see the program By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — Some state law- makers are making another push to create a first-time home- buyer savings account program. The program would allow Oregonians who haven’t owned a home in the past three years to save up to $50,000 in a 10-year period without paying state income taxes on the principal and interest. The money could be used to pay for a down pay- ment on the purchase of a sin- gle-family home. Lawmakers on the House Committee on Human Services and Housing plan to submit a bill to create the program as early as the next legislative ses- sion in February. 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