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Ad Hawk: Why break a perfectly good heart? Time to quit.

Lora Packel and Jason Zupec February 28, 2024

When someone mentions the health impact of smoking, most people immediately think of lung cancer or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). However, your heart and brain are also significantly...

Snuffed Out

Snuffed Out

Eddie Daou and Don Sullivan October 26, 2021

St. Joe’s implements smoke-free campus interim policy St. Joe’s is now a smoke- and tobacco-free campus. A new interim policy, which went into effect Oct. 18, prohibits all forms of smoking and tobacco...

The university is taking steps toward a smoke free campus. 
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s to begin smoke-free campus focus groups

Christian Peeney March 16, 2021

St. Joe’s hosted seven smoke-free campus focus groups in early March as the next step toward a smoke-free campus this year. Five of the groups, which took place March 1 to March 5, were geared toward...

A student uses an e-cigarette device on campus. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Mitchell Shields ’22

Health officials urge students to stop using electronic cigarettes

Cara Smith September 10, 2019

The Student Health Center sent a campus-wide email on Aug. 31 that drew attention to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warning about pulmonary diseases associated with...

Tristan Shoemaker '20 uses a JUUL.  PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA '20/THE HAWK

A JUUL takeover

Charley Rekstis and Alim-Karim Kamara March 27, 2018

New e-cigarette gains popularity on college campuses A new trend has taken off on college and high school campuses called JUULing, a discreet e-cigarette originally made for adults trying to quit smoking. The...

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