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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Supreme irony - smoke tobacco, walk the plank; smoke marijuana, be a BMOC.
What passes for logic these days.
Said rampaging smoker would likely encounter returning fire.
Look, I really don’t care if people want to destroy their major organ systems with lifestyle choices. It’s job security for me, as these people comprise more than half of the patients I see.
Said rampaging smoker would likely encounter returning fire.
Look, I really don’t care if people want to destroy their major organ systems with lifestyle choices. It’s job security for me, as these people comprise more than half of the patients I see.
yeah it should be Redman not Beechnut.
Check your magazine. I emptied it.
Uuggh! You will be sacrificed to the Cigar Tobacco Gods for that... :^)
Happily puffing away on a nice Drew Estates cigar as I type....Nothing like FReeping with a good cigar....
Do whatever you want. Just don’t make me pay for it, k?
If I had the option of signing on to a basic health insurance plan that doesn’t cover alchohol, tobacco, drug, or obesity related chronic illness, I would. Then I really couldn’t care less how someone else chooses to ruin their body.
A question for the statists here who support restrictions such as this: when you are old and feeble, suffering from alzheimers and must wear diapers and be fed by someone else and totally dependent upon others for the simplest of tasks, will you pay your own astronomical health care costs out of pocket, or will you force us smokers, who you people claim live shorter lives, to pay for your choice to out live your usefulness via our insurance?
Just curious.
As a rule, it would be nice if people with food related jobs wash their hands, I’ll give you that. I’m just more of a realist. People get behind in their work and hand washing is the first thing that goes out the window. It might not be proper, or legal, but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
One thing you said got me to thinking...
If you’re sober, and a slice of pizza lands on the floor (tile, and appearing clean, in this example) crust down, you wouldn’t observe the 5 second rule?
Pizza, like a mind, is a terrible thing to waste... :)
You’re good!!!!!
I’d vote for you to become King!!!! You’re already King of FR imho! :)
Been a few years since I lighted up, cost is treeible now.
Hate to tell you this, but smokers pay far more for the health care/insurance of others than non smokers pay.
The huge tobacco tax increase Bambi had implemented in February 2009 was specifically to pay for ScHIP - the poor kids’ health insurance program. So don’t give me the bull crap that you are paying for smokers - we are covering your butt by paying for others you don’t want to pay for.
Well put Gabz. How much water did you get from the storm. I remember Flyod drop alot more on the bordder area about 12 years ago. Lots of flooding back then. Hope all is well on the eastern shore.
this is so silly
drunk gang bangs filmed for the internet are ok but smoking is bad
hell...just dip
Even with the cost I still try to smoke a couple a week....
One of those small pleasures in life is a good cigar...
Even with the cost I still try to smoke a couple a week....
One of those small pleasures in life is a good cigar...
Thank you.
We got over a foot of rain, but we had been so dry it didn’t do too much damage, plus we lucked out because it did not hit at high tide as was originally predicted. There was some flooding and some damage, but all in all, we were very lucky.
Hope all is well with you.
Glad to here it. Sounds alot like Flyod lots of rain and flooding. All is well here, still dry.
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