The University of Mississippi is taking its smoking ban further than other colleges in the state, stubbing out tobacco use indoors and out across most of its 1,000-acre campus, according to The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, Miss. Smokers on Ole Miss’s campus, at Oxford, will be restricted to about 30 designated tobacco-use areas in parking lots.

Other public colleges in the state restrict outdoor smoking only within a specific number of feet around buildings, the newspaper said.

University officials cited health concerns about secondhand smoke as the main reason for the policy. The student government’s president, Drew Taggart, welcomed the extended ban. Mr. Taggart, who takes potential students and families on tours of the campus, told the newspaper that it had been frustrating to have to lead them “through a crowd of smokers or, perhaps, a pile of cigarette butts on the ground.” —Charles Huckabee