Smoking of any kind will no longer be allowed on the Nevada State University campus, beginning its new tobacco-free campus policy on Monday, August 25. This will coincide with the start of the Fall semester.
The new guidance prohibits smoking or vaping on all indoor and outdoor campus properties, in school parking lots, and on surrounding sidewalks.
That makes Nevada State University, formerly known as Nevada State College, the last major university in the state to adopt tobacco-free campus policies, following UNLV and UNR.
That’s as the Southern Nevada Health District says youth smoking is on the rise in the region among middle schoolers, whose rate of e-cigarette use increased by 3% between 2021 and 2023. During the same time period, teen vaping declined by 5%.
