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BreatheWell
Clean Air
BreatheWell creates a healthier, more breathable, and environmentally green campus for our entire community. As a leader in health and health care, as well as environmental research, policy, practice and education, UCLA has a responsibility and commitment to lead the way in reducing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure for our students, faculty, staff, and visitors. There is no risk-free level of secondhand smoke, and in forming a tobacco-free environment, BreatheWell saves lives by cutting down on the leading worldwide cause of preventable death.
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Resources
UCOP’s Smoke and Tobacco Free Environment PolicySeptember 27, 2022 |
Vaping is Better than Smoking and Could Save Tobacco Users’ Lives, Study FindsSeptember 23, 2018 |
Cigars and pipes tied to same risks as cigarettesSeptember 23, 2018 |
California Tobacco Control Branch
Explore the helpful resources available through the California Department of Public Health: California Tobacco Control Branch
BreatheWell Leadership
Michael Ong, MD, PhDBreatheWell Pod Leader, ResearchWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor in Residence, Medicine and Health Policy and Management; Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System |
As a land grant institution, the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).