Last Day in Perth

Today is my last day in Perth! This week at the Heart Foundation flew by. It was so packed with meetings and information, it almost felt like I had a job here! Today, Noni, the woman who I met with on Monday, is taking me to Curtin University, which is one of the biggest Universities in Western Australia and is completely smoke-free. This campus turned out to be W&J's polar opposite. Obviously it is about 10x the size, so that was very different to experience, and most students don't even live on campus. This is actually what most Australian Universities look like, actually, most students commute from an apartment or home, and most campuses are smoke free. I had the chance to speak with a faculty member who told me that the campus went completely smoke-free around 5 years ago, and it wasn't a huge chance for them. It was pretty much unacceptable to be non-smoke-free, so when they officially made the change, it was just accepted across the student population as common practice. So, it was actually pretty hard to find any signs that say "smoke-free campus" because it's just not needed, everyone just knows. If American Universities were even 50% like this, the campuses would be much healthier.