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Organizers want to raise legal age to buy tobacco
Photo illustration by Ashley Hocking Due to a recent change in policy, the University is going tobacco-free in fall 2018. Now, some organizers want to raise the age to purchaase tobacco to 21.
► CHANDLER BOESE
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In 2018, students at the University may not only be banned from using tobacco on campus,many of them may be unable to buy it at all.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, urged on by the community health coalition of Live Well Lawrence, is putting together a proposal to raise the purchasing age of tobacco to 21 within the county.
Dan Partridge, the director of the health department, said the coalition and the tobacco work group within it have been working on the effort for a couple of years. In the coming year, the coalition will make the change its primary focus.
While the obvious benefit to raising the purchasing age would be to curb tobacco use in people 18-21 years old, Partridge said the hope is to get fewer smokers in all age groups.
"Members of the coalition believe we
can decrease the risk of likelihood of developing a smoking habit by keeping tobacco out of the hands of younger people and they believe raising the purchasing age is the way to do it," he said.
Partridge said the coalition and health department have looked at how changing the age has worked in communities who have already raised it - including more than 20 municipalities in the Kansas City area, he said. He said those communities usually see a decrease in
tobacco use across the board.
"It not only decreases the tobacco rates among 18-21 year olds, but it also decreases the use of tobacco by minors as well," he said.
One University student, Lauren Atherton, a senior from San Diego, doubts that changing the policy will make a difference. Now 26, she's been smoking since she was 16.
"If it had been that way when I was 18, it wouldn't have mattered," she said. "It would be just like
drinking: Once I turned 21,
I stopped really drinking,
but before that, I binge drank."
Atherton said, between Lawrence's lax ID-checking and the ease of getting an older person to buy cigarettes for minors, she didn't see the law having much of an impact.
The coalition has gained support from local health organization and businesses, as well as statewide health organizations, according to its fact sheet. These organizations include
Watkins Health Center and the University's tobacco-free initiative.
It not only decreases the tobacco rates among 18-21 year olds,but it also decreases the use of tobacco by minors as well."
Dan Partridge
Director of Health Dept.
"It's a pretty impressive list of organizations both here and around the state," Partridge said.
Sometime before the end of the calendar year, Patridge said, the coalition would like to sit down with the Lawrence City Commission and discuss the change, but there are currently no solid plans to do so.
- Edited by Lexanna Sims
KU moves up 3 spots in sexual health report
For the past 10 years, the maker of Trojan condoms and Sperling's BestPlaces have released a sexual health "report card" showing which universities are encouraging safe sex and HIV/STI testing.
The University moved from 83 to 80 of 140 schools on this year's report card, with the University of Georgia taking the number one spot. Jenny McKee, program manager for the Health Education Resource Office (HERO), said the move is likely due to increased opportunities for free HIV/STI testing.
TANNER HASSELL
@thassell 17
Every Friday our peer health educators are somewhere handing out safe sex kits, which increases availability to free protection."
Jenny McKee HERO program manager
"We used to only do free testing on World AIDS Day; starting last year we began doing free testing during September for campus safety awareness month and in April as a part of our Gaypril programming," McKee said.
McKee said another area of improvement at the University is the "condom sense" Friday programming.
"Another thing we've started doing in the last couple of years is the condom sense Friday events. So every Friday our peer health educators
are somewhere handing out safe sex kits, which increases availability to free protection," she said.
In an email, Bert Sperling, founder of Bestplaces, said schools were graded on 11 categories, which included quality of sexual health information and resources on website, contraceptive availability, condom availability, HIV testing on-site, STI testing on-site, outreach programs, sexual assault programs, overall website quality, hours of operation and availability of drop-in appointments.
According to the Trojan website, Georgia was awarded first place for superior sexual health resources, and student advocacy for access to the resources. McKee said the difference between the University and Georgia is the availability of free testing.
"The University of Georgia has free testing all the time, which is not something we are able to do at the Health Center, so a program like that is really the difference," she said.
"We have received quite a few inquiries from schools on how they have improved and what they can do to improve in the future," he said in an email. "We are so glad that this is opening the conversation for access to sexual health resources on campuses across the country."
In the email, Sperling said schools have been very reactive to the report card.
In the specific case of the University, Sperling said in an email Kansas has put up good scores for accessibility of healthcare, testing and contraceptive availability, but could improve on the digital front.
"The sexual health
information on the KU website could be stronger," he said in an email. "Also, other schools have a wider
range of programs and initiatives we classify as 'extra credit.' Many schools are providing a number
File Photo Illustration
KU alumna, Margarita Caulfield, with Rep. Barbara Ballard
Proven Leadership
"Representative Ballard works on behalf of KU students in the state legislature.She has our interests at heart, and is constantly advocating student needs in the Kansas legislature. As a student, Ballard was one of the most helpful people I encountered at KU, and her continued representation in the legislature is vital for student needs." Margarita Caulfield
of creative and effective programs, some of which might be a great fit for the Jayhawks."
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