Terrace bans smoking indoors
Jessica LiTerrace Club enacted a complete prohibition against smoking and the use of vapor-emitting substances indoors at the behest of the Princeton Health Department, Terrace graduate board chair Sandy Harrison ’74 said.According to Harrison, a week after The Daily Princetonian published an article on November 24 identifying Terrace as a non-smoke-free building, the Princeton Health Department approached club leadership saying that its smoking policy was not in compliance with New Jersey state law.Jeffrey Grosser, town health officer, explained that although the investigator did not observe any violations or receive any complaints from the University, the “policy of the club didn’t reflect the [New Jersey] Smoke-Free [Air] Act.”Although gray areas exist in the law's implications, the act prohibits smoking in indoor work places and facilities open to public activities.“There have been miscommunications in the past, and some eating clubs believed they were exempt [from the law],” Grosser said, “but we made it clear that even if [Terrace] is private, it still has to comply.”The club's graduate board subsequently consulted the law and in March installed a new ventilation system in a single room dedicated to smoking, according to a March 23 article in the 'Prince.'However, the new policy did not satisfy the Health Department.
