U.S. colleges going smoke-free

[Doondoo]

College campuses across the United States are going smoke-free, banning cigarettes inside and out. At least 43 colleges, mostly commuter schools and community colleges, have banned smoking, American for Non-Smokers' Rights reports. But larger schools with on-campus housing are considering joining the movement, USA Today said Friday.

We want our institution to make a statement about doing the right things when it comes to good health, University of North Dakota President Chuck Kupchella told USA Today of his plans for the school. Smokers still will have rights, but just not on our campus.About 31 percent of college students smoke, compared with 25 percent of the population in general, the newspaper reported.

At the University of Iowa, Associate Provost Susan Johnson said the school is expecting a debate over a proposal to ban smoking in 2009.

Our goal here is not to coerce individuals to give up smoking, she said. Our goal is reduce the amount of secondhand smoke everybody is exposed to.


http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/35976.html

[halobeam]

1. ugh.

Why don't they stop the companies from making them then. Obviously they can't, so the one's that became addicted to them, (whom they PROFIT from), are the only avenue they have to walk down. This is ridiculous. If you are living on campus, they are going to tell you not to smoke? Wow. Thiry PLUS percent of college students smoke. Thats seriously upsetting as it is. I can understand if they said they can't smoke in the rooms they share, (although if they are living there they should at least have a place indoors to go to, IMO.. ) and they most certainly should be allowed to smoke outdoors (they could even designate areas for that).

Hook 'em, Take their money, Control them, and eventually kill them; what a great industry *NOT*!

And the main focus is on those addicted. What's wrong with this picture.

[DaveJ]

2. The only problem with this is their lie...

"Our goal here is not to coerce individuals to give up smoking, she said. Our goal is reduce the amount of secondhand smoke everybody is exposed to."

It's not "2nd hand smoke," but others smoking, from which they want to shield themselves.

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[ixion]

4. there needs to be an 'Americans for SMOKER'S Rights'

because these non-smoking fanatics are out of control. :grr:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. The next "smoke-in" will be about tobacco?

The times, they are indeed a'changin'.

:rofl:

Smokers are becoming an inferior underclass, subject to the tyranny of the majority. Easy targets. Just the steep rise in cigarette taxes in the past few decades is a good indication of the political weakness of smokers.

I can't imagine pulling an all-night study session without plenty of coffee and cigarettes.

[Alexander]

6. At ASU they banned smoking in an outside, open-air courtyard.

I got kicked out of said outside courtyard a few years ago when I was still a smoker, for daring to light up in the open air.

The RA on the power trip who kicked me out followed me outside the courtyard, demanding "Don't keep smoking it, put it out!"

He got a face full of cigarette smoke for that one.

I'm glad I don't smoke any more but that was satisfying, pissing all over the smoking Nazis. :evilgrin:

[SoCalDem]

7. The first day of college 1967..Kansas University

Freshman English ..location..Military Sciences building..

First lesson:

paper-ashtray 101..

he spent about half the class teaching us the finer points of how to make a paper ashtray that would not catch fire.. It works !

The prof did not want any of us burning down the building..might be "misinterpreted" :evilgrin:

[ElizabethDC]

8. I think this is great

at my college, smoking is banned inside buildings, but the smokers tend to congregate outside entrances to the buildings so that when you walk outside you essentially walk through a wall of cigarette smoke - very unpleasant!

[Alexander]

9. Most places have 25-50 foot ordinances.

That way, nobody going outside for a walk has to smell the smoke.

Unfortunately, most people who support a position such as yours don't really care about their health. They care about appearances.

Some self-righteous power-hungry chumps see a group of people smoking somewhere - anywhere - and they can't have that, it looks bad for the school. Even if the smokers are far away from building entrances.

This sort of overkill approach is ridiculous. If people really care about their lungs they'd settle for the ordinance and push for something meaningful like subsidizing hybrid and alternate-fuel methods of transport, which is the real killer.