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John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M system, on Tuesday called for all of the public university system's 11 campuses to ban the use of e-cigarettes and vaping as soon as possible.
Sharp said the system should not take any unnecessary chances, given recent findings about serious illness and deadly lung disease that is associated with vaping.
"Smoking is banned in most places in the system already. But the ban on vaping is to be mandatory and expanded to every inch of the Texas A&M system," he said in a written statement. "This health threat is serious enough that I want to see the ban include every building, outside space, parking lot, garage and laboratory within the Texas A&M system. The ban also should extend to every facility of our $950 million research enterprise and all system properties in the 250 Texas counties in which the Texas A&M system has a presence."
