The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is banning smoking products, including vaping and tobacco.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas will become a smoke-free campus beginning Aug. 15, the university announced Friday. The new policy will apply to all students, staff and faculty.

UNLV announced Friday that it will become a smoke-free campus on Aug. 15.

UNLV will go smoke-free on Aug. 12, in doing so joining about 2,000 universities across the country.

UNLV is becoming a tobacco-free institution starting Aug. 15, the university announced in a press release on Friday.

If approved, the change would ban smoking — including the use of electronic cigarettes — and tobacco products such as chewing tobacco in all university spaces, both indoors and outdoors. It would apply to students, employees, contractors and vendors, and visitors.

Hundreds of Nevada university students will be trained and employed as contact tracers to help identify and inform people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Hundreds of Nevada university students will be trained and employed as contact tracers to help identify and inform people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.