Penn State Hershey has earned a Platinum Plus Tobacco-Free College Campus Initiative Challenge campus distinction. Platinum Plus distinction is awarded to those campuses that have fully implemented a comprehensive 100 percent tobacco-free policy that includes e-cigarettes.
Lisa Abbott, chief human resource officer and associate vice president for human resources for health affairs, and Dr. Jonathan Foulds, director, Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, accepted the distinction from Joshua Prasad of the Tobacco-Free College Campus Initiative on May 4. Penn State Hershey was the first campus in the mid-Atlantic region to achieve Platinum-Plus distinction in the initiative.
To date, 1,043 college campuses in the nation have been recognized as 100 percent tobacco-free.