Tobacco surrounds UK’s campus, whether it is the fields lining the streets into Lexington or the smokers lining the hospital sidewalks of South Limestone.

Yet on Nov. 19, UK will turn its campus into a tobacco-free environment.  No more smoke breaks behind White Hall Classroom Building.  No more strolls through campus with a lit cigarette in hand.  No more late night smoke breaks outside Blanding Tower during a long night of studying.

Tobacco will no longer exist on this campus.

Read the full story in Thursday’s edition of the Kentucky Kernel.