Smoke-free laws and regulations are some of the most effective interventions to reduce cigarette addiction and promote quitting among young adults. Colleges that promote and enforce a smoke-free environment would help to drastically minimize many enticements that persuade people to smoke at such a critical age for forming lifelong habits. According to the Surgeon General's Report for 2012, 90% of smokers started by age eighteen; 99% started by age twenty six. Prevention efforts must focus on young adults between this age range. Tobacco use by young adults can have both immediate and long-term health concerns that include, but are not limited to early heart damage and reduced lung function. College is a time in many young adults' lives when they are particularly vulnerable to social influences, messages, and peer pressure. According to Ellen Hahn's report, the college years are often the first time for true independence for many young adults, which makes these years play a critical role in the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors. A smoke-free campus policy promotes smoking cessation and would protect many young adults from ever lighting up a cigarette in the first place. Smoking on college campuses needs to be banned as it would help to protect young adults from the ill effects of both first and second-hand cigarette smoke and the subsequent health concerns. Countless campaigns have been aimed at encouraging young adults not to begin smoking, however a third of college students are currently using both cigarettes and cigars as cited in an ABC news report by Melissa Schorr. Previous research had only taken into account cigarette smoking in college students, but had failed to ask about the use of other tobacco products, such as cigars. According to Melissa Schorr's article, when this option was included it substantially added to the figures. But this new insight may give researchers fresh ideas on how to target smoking on campus. "Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health surveyed more than 14,000 students at 119 colleges nationwide, asking them to report on their lifetime use of tobacco. A third of the students said they had used a tobacco product ” cigarettes, chewing tobacco and increasingly, cigars ” in the last four weeks, indicating they were current users, and nearly half of the students admitted they had used tobacco in the past year , writes Schorr. In the study performed by the Harvard School of Public Health, researchers had discovered that between the years 1993 and 1997, the number of U.S. college students who smoked cigarettes had risen from 22 % to 28 %. That is a significant increase. Currently, cigarette use among college students has leveled off around the 28% mark. However, 23% of college students said they had smoked a cigar within the last year and almost 10% reported they were currently smoking cigars regularly, as described in Schorr ˜s report.. Those findings brought the total tobacco use up to 33%, which is just about a third of all college students. Figures indicate there nearly 18 million college students in the U.S., which means nearly 6 million young adults are smoking. This is a more accurate picture of tobacco use among college students, rather than just limiting research to cigarette smoking only. Instituting smoke-free legislation at college campuses would curb the use of tobacco (both cigarettes and cigars) among young adults drastically. These smoking bans are among the most effective ways to decrease cigarette use, especially on campus and promote quitting. According to Ellen Hahn's report, smoking rates declined by 32% among college students when campuses initiated and enforced comprehensive smoke-free bans. Not only did th