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Posted on 04/07/2010 5:57:30 AM PDT by libertarian27
“The policy was made by the president. No one knows how this decision was made.” This was the comically honest response of Ken Warner, dean of the School of Public Health, to the question of who proposed the campus-wide smoking ban, according to The Michigan Daily.
It’s clear, then, that University President Mary Sue Coleman is the architect of the Smoke-Free Initiative, which will take effect in July of 2011. The initiative will prohibit smoking on all outdoor University property. Coleman and University administrators have been embarrassingly vague about why such a ban is necessary. Instead, they keep insisting that the smoking ban will improve public health.
Interestingly enough, the smoking ban may also improve Coleman’s salary.
That’s because Coleman isn’t just a college president. In her spare time, she moonlights as a businesswoman, sitting on the board of directors for major pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, as well as the Meredith Corporation, a magazine publisher. According to Forbes.com, her position at Johnson & Johnson netted her an income of $229,000 last year.
Among Johnson & Johnson’s many marketed brands are smoking cessation products like Nicorette and Nicoderm — products that University smokers will feel encouraged to use once smoking becomes unwelcome on campus in July 2011. Indeed, administrators have already announced that smoking cessation products may be offered at discounted prices to students who are trying to quit.
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Freedom sure does cause problems, doesn’t it? *sigh*
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The same Mary Sue Coleman that said she would figure out a way around the ban placed on U Mich for affirmative action admissions?
The same Mary Sue Coleman that said she would figure out a way around the ban placed on U Mich for affirmative action admissions?
Wonder how much money has been made on “the patch”, “gum” etc...It’s a win win for pharmaceutical companies-meds to quit or meds for your heart...
Yes, same one.
http://www.ur.umich.edu/0405/Mar14_05/19.shtml
President Mary Sue Coleman said affirmative action not only is needed to promote women and minorities, but to ensure Michigan and the country can compete in a global market.
Let’s ban our way to even more bliss. It’ll create an illusion of progress while we try to ignore the “unexpected” recession.
Yet they use tobacco money to fund Pell Grants. They love the money, just not the freedom.
When the US President visits the MSU president will the ban be enforced? Or will the enforcement be selective.
From all reports, the US President is still a heavy smoker.
The rules only apply to us prols.
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