SMOKE-FREE ‘PIPE DREAM’
TURNING the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) into a smoke-free campus might be a pipe dream and it will take a “hip” targeted campaign to steer students away from hookahs and e-cigarettes.
Dr Chauntelle Bagwandeen, newly appointed director of Student Health Services at UKZN, was responding to a study released by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) showing an “alarming” increase in university students using hookahs and e-cigarettes.
Bagwandeen said: “All efforts will be made to inhibit the increase in uptake of e-cigarettes and hookahs to prevent long-term consequences that are
