Vast majority of college campuses aren’t smoke-free

A pair of newly published studies points to how smoking — whether tobacco or e-cigarettes — may continue to be a problem among young people. In one study, researchers found that about 17% of U.S. colleges and universities have 100% smoke-free policies or tobacco-free protected areas. Only about a quarter of students and faculty in the U.S. benefit from such protections, which leaves a lot more room for improvement, the study’s authors write.

Another study finds that content related to Juul’s e-cigarettes on Instagram is likely to influence young people. Searching for hashtags, researchers found nearly 15,000 posts related to the vaping devices, with more than a third of the posts being promotional and over half of the posts being related to youth or lifestyle.