The university invited OCC and Cal State L.A. to participate. Orange Coast College has been pursuing its own smoking cessation pilot program for the past year. According to the USC grant proposal, the percentage of college students across the nation who smoke is on the rise. That's a very disturbing trend. The rise in smoking is not limited to one gender or cultural group.
Tobacco poses a major health risk to American college students.
Dickson has witnessed the impact of smoking on OCC's 25,000-student campus. I think this research project will assist us in finding out. Ultimately, the findings from the project have national implications, and will benefit college campuses across the nation. OCC has carried out its own smoking cessation pilot program for the past year. Virtually all of the students we've talked to in our pilot program have told us that they want to quit smoking.