University of California campuses across the state are beginning to implement the system’s new smoke-free policy by 2014.

However, as University of California-Los Angeles student reporter Maritza Cardenas notes in the Daily Bruin, not all the state’s scholars are complying with rules currently in place.

Lindsee Bawahab does not plan to quit smoking anytime soon.

Even though a new tobacco-free policy ban will go in effect on campus today, Bawahab said she still plans to go through half a pack every day, maybe even a pack a day during midterms and finals season.

And because of the educational nature of the ban, she technically does not have to stop smoking on campus.

“I’m still going to smoke on campus,” said Bawahab, a fourth-year anthropology student. “But in secluded places to not bother anybody.”

The policy, which aims to educate people about the effects of tobacco, bans the use of tobacco through the use of pipes, water-based pipes, electronic cigarettes and cigars….

Students who keep using tobacco on campus after repeatedly being told to stop would technically be violating school policy and the student code of conduct, Sarna said. She added that students could receive a warning, which means that the dean will give the student a notice stating the student’s behavior may have violated university policy or regulations. If the behavior is repeated, the student may be subject to further discipline, according to the UCLA student code of conduct.

Faculty and staff could be written up by their superiors for using tobacco on campus.

However, it is unlikely they would be fired for the violations, said Timothy Fong, associate professor of psychiatry and member of the Tobacco-Free Steering Committee.

Starting today, people can pick up informational cards in 3125 Murphy Hall and pass them out to people on campus who they see using tobacco. Sarna said she hopes that group pressure to not use tobacco on campus will help to enforce the policy.

One side of the card will explain UCLA’s tobacco-free policy, while the other side of the card will list resources for tobacco cessation on campus.

Peter Haffner, a graduate student studying world arts and cultures who was smoking outside the Charles E. Young Research Library Friday afternoon, said he does not think educational enforcement of the tobacco-free policy will be effective.

“I just don’t think (educational enforcement) is going to end (smoking on campus).” Haffner said. “Nicotine’s really addictive. People will find ways to smoke.”

Haffner said that he intends to quit smoking and that since the school is offering resources for students to quit the resources, it may aid him in his journey.