Posted on 04/12/2007 5:54:59 PM PDT by jeffq73
Harford Community College has banned smoking entirely on its campus, as all the recent news has reported in the area. The ban, which starts July 1, even applies to smoking in privately owned vehicles while on campus. WJZ reports that a $50 fine and an education project or community service will be required for those found in violation of the policy and that faculty staff members will be referred to their supervisor.
A story a few weeks ago in The Examiner would seem to indicate that this total ban was passed because the designated smoking areas on campus were being ignored. Other reports indicate that the part of the ban in cars won’t be enforced that tightly. Other area colleges reportedly had similar policies. For example, UMBC started enforcing designated outdoor smoking areas over winter break.
In other parts of the country, an elementary school in South Carolina recently banned smoking by parents waiting in their vehicles to pick their children up.
Legal?
This is getting ridiculous, seems to me a go getter civil liberties type lawyer should be able to knock the smoking in your car issue out of the park if they were so inclined.
“If caught the perpetrator will be treated as a nappy-headed hoe.”
I’m glad I’m not a smoker.
WHAT? Are the vehicles parked in the school building?
This is nuts!
Do you remember when the United States was a FREE country?
If the schools can take the freedom to smoke in one’s own vehicle away, and people stand still for it, what is coming next?
It’s been illegal here for quite a while. No smoking on school property means exactly that. Personally I think it’s stupid to tell adults that they can’t smoke in their cars but there it is.
A friend of mine got a ticket last 4th of July. He was sitting on the hood of his car smoking a cigarette watching fireworks.
I’ve never smoked, but remember there being a “smoking area” at my junior high school in the late 70’s. The teachers and 7,8,and 9th grade kids lined up puffing away between classes.
You’re gonna get fired....
There have been a couple of recent court cases involving property owners trying to restrict people’s activities in their vehicles while said vehicles were on the property. IIRC, gun owners won the right to have firearms in their vehicles (subject to other carry/transport laws) but I am not sure how this would go. Smoking is not a Constitutional right.
“I’ve never smoked, but remember there being a “smoking area” at my junior high school in the late 70’s. The teachers and 7,8,and 9th grade kids lined up puffing away between classes.”
Yep! I remember that mine did as well. All 3 schools in 2 different states as well. And to add to that, I remember that if you were out of smokes that you could go into the teachers lounge and buy a pack out of the vending machine (also history).
A totalitaritarian dictatorship. Coming to a country really, really, really close to you.
But you can relax. It won't affect you.
Not in my lifetime, but it used to be a whole lot more so than it is now -- and the change is accelerating.
I don’t understand. Why wouldn’t it affect me?
The scent of burning charcoal makes me ill.
Not just the direct fumes, the mere scent of burning charcoal in the air is enough.
Since there is no defined constitutional right to barbeque, would you support me if I convinced a local, state or federal legislative body to introduce a prohibition against the noxious practice?
Also, I would like to see legislation banning joggers from running anywhere near public roads.
Since runners take deep breaths, it is patently dangerous and unhealthy to their lungs to jog near vehicles spewing toxic emissions.
I also think urban joggers need to pay extra premiums for health insurance policies.
Has anyone produced a study yet on the dangers of urban jogging?
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