{"id":4790,"date":"2011-09-07T06:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/curtin-butts-out\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:57:26","slug":"curtin-butts-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/curtin-butts-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin butts out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From New Year&#8217;s Day 2012, all Curtin University campuses in Western Australia will become smoke-free.<\/p>\n<p>This means smoking will be prohibited on all University land, including at Bentley, Kalgoorlie, Margaret River, Murray Street and\u00a0Shenton Park campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The prohibition will also apply to student and University supplied housing and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>An amendment to the University by-laws will prohibit smoking, and breaches may attract a\u00a0fine.<\/p>\n<p>The University is a leader in the field of health research and teaching, and recognises that smoking and second-hand smoke harm people&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>By going smoke-free, the University is aligning its policies and practices with research evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Curtin is sponsoring a campaign to raise awareness of the changes and is offering smokers services and support.<\/p>\n<p>More details, and advice on how to quit, are available at the University&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smokefree.curtin.edu.au\/\">Smoke Free 2012<\/a><\/strong> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown to a smoke-free Uni has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"5015,6056,5468,6122,4760,8385","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":3,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"post_components":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hero-y.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Jarrad","last_name":"Long","display_name":"Jarrad Long"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 09:11:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}