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Lighters flared on a gusty, damp day as smokers huddled under one of the few designated smoking gazebos on Skagit Valley College's main campus.

Smokers increasingly have had a tough time trying to light up between classes as they've been pushed into just a few areas on campus.

And in the future, smokers may be pushed to another place — their own vehicles — thanks to a proposed tobacco-free campus policy the college's Safety Committee could vote on at a meeting Friday.