Wash. Admin. Code § 132Q-10-231 - [Effective 4/5/2025] Use of tobacco, electronic cigarettes and related products

Use of tobacco, electronic cigarettes and related products are prohibited in all Spokane Colleges facilities and motor pool vehicles with no exception.

(1) Smoking and tobacco use are also prohibited:

(a) Within 25 feet of entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking and tobacco use are prohibited; and

(b) Where designated on college premises.

(2) "Smoking" means:

(a) Inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying or possessing any lighted tobacco product, including cigarettes, cigars, bidi, clove cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and any other lit tobacco products; or

(b) Use of electronic nicotine delivery devices and related products including, but not limited to, electronic cigarettes, vapor cigarettes, hookahs, waterpipes or similar products.

(3) "Tobacco use" means the personal use of:

(a) Any tobacco product, which shall include smoking, as defined in subsection (2) of this section, as well as use of an electronic cigarette or any other device intended to simulate smoking;

(b) Smokeless tobacco, including snuff, chewing tobacco, smokeless pouches, or any other form of loose-leaf, smokeless tobacco.

(4) "Facilities" means a district owned or controlled property, building, or component of that property/building.

(5) "Motor pool vehicles" means vehicles assigned to specific college departments or programs; vehicles used for instructional purposes; vehicles dispatched to staff and students on a reserved, single-use basis; and vehicles assigned to specific faculty and staff.

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Wash. Admin. Code § 132Q-10-231

Adopted by WSR 15-15-161, Filed 7/21/2015, effective 8/21/2015 Amended by WSR 25-06-085, Filed 3/5/2025, effective 4/5/2025