As of July 1, MU is on to stage two of its three-stage plan to become a smoke-free campus.

“It’s time to clear the air,” the [Smoke-Free Mizzou website](http://smokefree.missouri.edu/) states. “The University of Missouri is committed to making our campus a healthy place to work, live and learn. Toward that goal, we’re going smoke-free.”

Stage one, which prohibited smoking within 20 feet of building entryways, was a transition to becoming a smoke-free campus. Stage two takes it one step further, only allowing people to smoke in designated areas.

“(Designated areas include) surface parking lots and the top of parking garages and there are also a few designated specific areas in and around campus where there is not a surface parking lot nearby,” MU spokesman Christian Basi said. “For example, there are a few places outside of Jesse Hall where people are allowed to smoke.”

Designated smoking locations were created based on popular smoking areas noticed by Wellness Resource Center personnel.

“Previously, when they decided to go to designated smoking areas outdoors they began keeping track of where folks congregate to smoke and developed those areas based on foot traffic,” Basi said.

The Wellness Resource Center will also be working with the T. E. Atkins UM Wellness Program to provide help for students to quit smoking. Support includes counseling sessions over the phone and through email, and a supply of gum, patches or lozenges.

The Smoke-Free Mizzou campaign also hopes to diminish the risk of second-hand smoke for non-smokers. According to [the Wellness Resource Center’s website](quit.missouri.edu), 78 percent of MU students do not smoke.

“Secondhand smoke causes an average of 1,150 deaths in Missouri annually,” the website states.

Stage three, the final stage, will begin Jan. 1, 2014, and will not allow smoking anywhere on campus.

A map of designated smoking areas can be found on the [Smoke-Free Mizzou website](http://smokefree.missouri.edu/map/index.php).