Posted on 08/31/2011 5:52:29 AM PDT by Abathar
(CNN) -- This summer, a group of University of Kentucky students and staff has been patrolling campus grounds -- scouting out any student, employee or visitor lighting a cigarette.
Unlike hall monitors who cite students for bad behavior, the Tobacco-free Take Action! volunteers approach smokers, respectfully ask them to dispose of the cigarette and provide information about quit-smoking resources available on campus.
The University of Kentucky is one of more than 500 college campuses across the country that have enacted 100% smoke-free or tobacco-free policies as of July 1. Although policy enforcement varies from school to school, most prohibit smoking on all campus grounds, including athletic stadiums, restaurants and parking lots.
An increasing number of colleges adopted smoke-free or tobacco-free policies in the past few years, according to American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation Project Manager Liz Williams. In the past year alone, 120 campuses were added to the smoke-free list.
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For smokers visiting the campus, UK offers nicotine cessation products, such as gum or patches, for $5 at several locations."
I bet those coupons were redeemed right around finals week too, I knew kids who would chew the gum just to get the buzz.
Tobacco smokers - not welcome
Pole smokers - welcome
I’d wager that some of the tobacco gestapo have no problem with firing up a doob in the dorm room.
These liberal enclaves with their nutty behavior are like watching an ant farm.
The same college administrators that are pushing a smoke free campus were probably partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, listening to the damn Beatle albums, and were the biggest pot heads on campus back during the ‘glorious’ late 60’s early 70’s.
This is going to go over like a lead balloon. When my kids were in college I was amazed at the number of students that smoked, far greater that the general population. The only group that I know of that has a higher percentage of smokers is restaurant kitchen help.
I believe they grow a lot of tobacco in Kentucky. Even the baptists.
What about a prayer meeting, how long will it take to shut them down?
When fascism returns it will be wrapped in the flag of health-n-safety.
No excuses for the wait staff either. Drive round the back of an Outback some time and you will see half a dozen apron-clad types blazing away.
Any time your drink's empty and you wonder where they've gone...
The next obvious question is - do they wash their hands upon returning at least?
I like lighting a long cigar and blowing it in the face of the tobacco nazis. Doesn’t hurt to also have a mouthful of Beech-Nut going to spit on them as well.
You should be taken out shot for that....
Not for smoking the cigar, for mixing it with Beechnut.....
:^)
Just so I’m clear: I oppose any and all smoking bans for the usual private property and consenting adult reasons but especially because the bans are usually passed by bluenoses who haven’t been in a bar or restaurant in years.
Local bars are quite different from cookie-cutter restaurants with their canned intro lines and lame suggestive selling. Apparently this causes nicotine cravings in their early-20s complement of employees.
I did enjoy the Ohio smoking ban debacle in which they had no enforcement personnel and open defiance by many establishments. In true bureaucrat fashion they responded by threatening to withhold liquor license renewals.
Many years ago - after entering my physician’s office - he reached into his desk and lit up a cigarette, exclaiming:
“I need a smoke - all those patients out there - make me nervous”!!!!
He was a great doctor!!!
More than anything else, smoking is the “great equalizer”.
CEOs will hang out back with the janitorial staff and shop workers and shoot the shit while having a smoke.
Some weeds are more equal than others.
its not as much the nicotine craving, as it is a strong desire to get away from a table of jerks that you really want to dump a pot of hot soup on.
Smoking in the boys room means something very different in grade 13 and up high schools.
A question for the smokers here expressing outrage about this: when you eventually wind up with COPD, heart disease, or one of the several cancers caused by tobacco use, will you pay your own astronomical healthcare costs out of pocket, or will you force us nonsmokers to pay for your choice to destroy your own body via our insurance?
Just curious.
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