UCLA to Introduce Campus-Wide Smoking Ban in the Spring

Ban will include electronic cigarettes

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Smoking will be banned on a major California university in the spring, officials say, as all campuses in the system move toward being smoke-free.

University's Chancellor Gene D. Block made the announcement Tuesday in a letter, the Los Angeles Times reported.

All tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, will be banned on the campus of UCLA as of April 22, he said.