Tobacco-Free Policy
Effective Date: May 17, 2010
Dated: May 17, 2010
Signature: Bob Collin
Position: Acting President
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Commitment:
Run Dufferin recognizes that there is ample research demonstrating the health hazards of the use of
tobacco products, including smoking and the breathing of secondhand smoke. Running is a healthy sport
and as such we have a responsibility to the participants and the community to demonstrate healthy
choices. Run Dufferin has therefore developed this policy in the best interest of the health & safety of the
participants and the general public.
Policy:
All programs, races, training sessions, and events sanctioned by our organization will be tobacco-free.
Tobacco free means no smoking, snuffing, dipping, or chewing tobacco by athletes, participants, coaches,
board members, or spectators within 9 metres (30 ft.) of any Run Dufferin program/event.
We will promote the tobacco-free policy at all of our programs/events by:
We will reinforce the tobacco-free policy at all of our programs/events by:
Effective Date: May 17, 2010
Dated: May 17, 2010
Signature: Bob Collin
Position: Acting President
________________________________________________________________________
Commitment:
Run Dufferin recognizes that there is ample research demonstrating the health hazards of the use of
tobacco products, including smoking and the breathing of secondhand smoke. Running is a healthy sport
and as such we have a responsibility to the participants and the community to demonstrate healthy
choices. Run Dufferin has therefore developed this policy in the best interest of the health & safety of the
participants and the general public.
Policy:
All programs, races, training sessions, and events sanctioned by our organization will be tobacco-free.
Tobacco free means no smoking, snuffing, dipping, or chewing tobacco by athletes, participants, coaches,
board members, or spectators within 9 metres (30 ft.) of any Run Dufferin program/event.
We will promote the tobacco-free policy at all of our programs/events by:
- Having coaches explain the policy to members and provide participants with a letter to review and
share with others who may come to their programs/events. - Including the policy in the membership package provided to members every year so all new and
returning members know about the policy from the start. - Making the policy visible throughout the year using various messages, including on the website,
flyers to promote events/membership, banners/signs at events, and encouraging participants to
promote an active, healthy, tobacco-free lifestyle.
We will reinforce the tobacco-free policy at all of our programs/events by:
- Encouraging all members, participants, and spectators to respectfully remind someone using tobacco
about the tobacco-free policy. - Consistently applying consequences with people who repeatedly break the policy. Repeated violations
by members, family/friends, or spectators would result in a verbal or written warning from the Run
Dufferin Board. - Following a written warning the individual violating the policy again would be banned from all Run
Dufferin programs/events.
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