Rend Lake College will be a smoke-free campus starting July 1^st, thanks to a nationwide initiative aimed at addressing smoking and tobacco use on community college campuses.  The Smoke-Free Campus Act, signed last year by former Governor Pat Quinn, will not allow smoking on any public college or university campus, whether that is indoors, outdoors, or in parking lots.  Staff, students, and visitors will no longer be able to carry, smoke, burn, inhale, or exhale any kind of cigarette, cigar, e-cigarette, or other smoking equipment.  The one exception is for those who wish to smoke inside their vehicles.  RLC is one of 38 community colleges around the country who are receiving funds, technical support, and training through a $5,000 grant from Legacy, a national public health organization.  The grant will help provide signage and promotional items for the college to raise awareness, as well as fund monthly events aimed at helping students and staff quit smoking.  Over the next year, RLC will begin to address tobacco use by encouraging all students, faculty, and staff to adopt a 100 percent smoke-free policy in their personal lives.  A 100 percent smoke-free policy is one that prohibits the use of smoke-producing tobacco, such as cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, small cigars, pipes, hookah as well as e-cigarettes.  The policy applies to anyone on campus and on any campus property.