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specific plan goals and directions are proposed in order to create smoke-free campus educational environments for colleges and universities. HPA worked with the MOE to encourage colleges and universities to voluntarily reduce the number of designated smoking areas and make plans to achieve a completely smoke-free campus. Principals and deans shall take lead in declaring their dedication to ensure the proper implementation of campus affairs meetings, increasing patrols and inspection of campus areas, promotion of smoking cessation information and referral services, and collaboration with the MOE to stipulate targets required for creating a smoke-free campus. By 2018, a total of 76 colleges and universities have been established as smoke-free. In 2018, there were a total of 35 schools that participated through the methods of subsidy offering and guided visits etc., in order to encourage colleges and universities of young group areas to conduct tobacco control plans and to combine nearby community resources along with expansion of promotion scope. It increased the knowledge and skills of teachers and students in tobacco control, cultivating tobacco control seed team, stimulating teachers and students to autonomously enroll in the anti-tobacco and tobacco rejection group and providing smoking cessation service referral information such that campus tobacco prevention and sustainable operation can be established. In addition, grass-roots guidance is provided by invited experts and committee members. Oral reports on implementation results and encountered difficulties in different schools are delivered by the Northern and Southern groups and suggestions for improvement are submitted. 10 schools with outstanding performance are selected. Implementation results in various schools are as follows: 1. Campus tobacco control public strategy: Most schools have already established penalty rules for smoking, and through the highlevel management of the school, tobacco control committees are established for stipulating public policies related to tobacco control and committed to the development of smoke-free campus consensus. 2. Creating supportive environment: (a) In addition to the effective controls on basic setups of the campus slogan setups and propaganda promotion etc. in each school, such as the electronic billboard in campus and electronic marquees can be effectively utilized. Accordingly, 25 schools among 35 schools are smoke-free universities, and the establishments of supportive environments of the campuses are excellent. (b) The anti-tobacco activities of schools are diverse and plentiful, and most of the schools have been able to develop various activities in conducting promotions along with the utilization of various media broadcasts, creation of promotion video films based on the characteristics of the school, and many schools have also held a sign-up campaign to reject tobacco in the campuses. The joint fan page of four schools is utilized to provide education on tobacco and e-cigarette control, share results and resources, and increase the number of affected individuals. All of the methods are full of creativity and are quite touching, which clearly demonstrates the importance of tobacco control in campus and the outcomes are impressive. 3. Actions for strengthening communities: The activities held by each school together with the communities are diverse and include organizations of friendly community activities and the enlistment of stores in the vicinity of schools for anti-smoking campaigns. The promotion of smoke-free commercial zones, smoke-free landlords, invitation of business owners and landlords 21 Reducing the Demand for Tobacco