YAKIMA, Wash. -- Smokers are already banned from lighting up in restaurants, bars and other public places throughout the country.

Now, a couple universities are following suit.

The University of Kentucky — the largest university in the tobacco-growing state and home to a tobacco research center — has banned all smoking on campus, according to an article in USA Today. The new policy applies everywhere on the Lexington-based campus and includes chewing tobacco, pipes, cigars, snuff and cigarettes. The ban is an expansion of a policy passed in 2006, which prohibited smoking in buildings within 20 feet of buildings.

The University of Montana is also trying to follow suit. According to the New York Times, the university is proposing a campuswide ban on all forms of tobacco — including smokeless tobacco.

The ban would take effect in the fall of 2011 and would include the golf course, all parking lots and Washington-Grizzly Stadium, where smoking is now permitted along perimeter fences.

— Erin Snelgrove