(AP) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Lights out time is approaching at the University of Michigan, where a campus-wide ban on smoking outdoors as well as inside takes effect next month.
The school says it's the first major university in the state to adopt such a ban, while Big Ten rivals Indiana and Iowa already have them in place.
University chief health officer Robert Winfield tells the Detroit Free Press that the Ann Arbor school is "approaching this issue with great respect for the difficulty in discontinuing tobacco use."
The university has banned smoking inside its buildings since 1987. The outdoor smoking ban takes effect July 1.
Plans for the ban were announced in 2009. The school says it will be enforced by voluntary compliance, peer and supervisory support but not fines.
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