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In September, the owner of a large company decided that the work site would become a tobacco-free environment at the beginning of the new year. His decision was based on the fact that he had just lost an uncle to lung cancer as a result of smoking. To implement the new policy, the owner sent a memo to department managers informing them of the decision and instructed them to post information to alert employees of the change along with penalties for violating the policy, begin removing all ashtrays from the break rooms, and display no-smoking signs throughout the work site.

You are the health educator in charge of work site wellness at this company. Although you are happy to see the upcoming no-smoking campus policy, you are concerned about how the new policy was implemented. Using the CDC Tobacco-Free Campus Toolkit. for information, detail your concerns about the implementation of the new policy and the reasons why it may fail.