OSU tobacco ban goes into effect

Tobacco is now officially taboo on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

The policy went into effect Tuesday and makes the Stillwater campus at least the fifth in the state to prohibit tobacco.

OSU President Burns Hargis says the policy is intended to make the university cleaner and healthier.

Hargis says no one is being forced to give up tobacco and calls it a minor inconvenience.

Seretean Wellness Center director Robin Purdie says officials won't actively enforce the policy unless a student or employee continually violates it. She says people will be made aware of the policy in hopes they will want to comply.