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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“do they wash their hands upon returning at least?”
Ya know, if they don’t wash their hands after having a cigarette I doubt if it causes a customer to explode.
Washing hands is a good thing, but it should be done in moderation. Life isn’t sanitary...
How's everything tasting?!
I now ask not to be asked that.
Hey, guess what, when non-smokers get old, they have health problems too. That “smoker-healthcare” claim is a joke, and always has been.
If you want to go down that road, then let’s include candy, fast food, meat, mercury laced fish, active people, couch potatoes, etc. etc.
Some people will never be happy unless every other person in this country lives EXACTLY as they want them to.
It’s fine if you don’t smoke, God bless you, but that gives you ZERO right to inflict your life choices on anyone else.
Right. Let’s set the standard as low as possible. Especially after they’ve used the back door which was handled by all manner of delivery types all day long.
Maybe they could lean up against the dumpster or grease trap. Y’know, just to get the full thrill-of-danger effect.
Yes but did you leave room for dessert?
Why don’t they mind their own business.
Smoking causes “Busy Bodies” and “Statistics”.
I remember when my doctor smoked and there were several ashtrays in his waiting room.
Are you non-smokers willing to pay double social security taxes so that a nurse can change your diapers and wipe your butt for your last 20 years?
I would.
Just as I'm expected to pay for the morbidly obese, anorexics, alcoholics, people who engage in risky sports, jockeys who could get trampled by a horse, and busybody pecksniffs who routinely get the crap beaten out of them by normal people.
Ahh yes. Because its so well established how very effective Prohibition was....And we've GOT THE POLICE POWER TO PROVE IT!!!
Such a lovely environment for free enquiry--great way to pass along democratic FASCIST values.
Yes, everyone eventually succumbs to something and dies. But it is simple fact that horrible lifestyle choices like smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse result in chronic illness that is outrageously expensive to treat and lasts decades. Live healthy, and you stand an excellent chance of living a long life with a much shorter period of illness at the very end.
I work in healthcare (emergency medicine) and I see this stuff every day. The costs of personal lifestyle choices and the burden it puts on our healthcare system are mind boggling.
Yes, everyone eventually succumbs to something and dies. But it is simple fact that horrible lifestyle choices like smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse result in chronic illness that is outrageously expensive to treat and lasts decades. Live healthy, and you stand an excellent chance of living a long life with a much shorter period of illness at the very end.
I work in healthcare (emergency medicine) and I see this stuff every day. The costs of personal lifestyle choices and the burden it puts on our healthcare system are mind boggling.
Remarkable isn’t it - that life expectancy increased during the period when smokers comprised 75% of adults?
YOUR insurance?
Insurance is no longer ‘shared risk for unexpected illness & injury’ - the so-called ‘plans’ now include procedures that would have been declared as ‘elective’ in earlier decades i.e.- IVF and regular pregnancy, contraception, abortion,viagra, stomach stapling, sex changes, joint replacement.
All the conditions you mention occur in non-smokers BTW.
Neither. We will go on a week-long shooting spree, taking out as many nonsmokers as possible.
Not smoking cigarettes is VERY unhealthy.
If you fail to smoke cigarettes, the odds are that a rampaging smoker will shoot you all to death.
“Maybe they could lean up against the dumpster or grease trap. Yknow, just to get the full thrill-of-danger effect.”
So what if they did? The chances of someone doing both of those things and someone getting sick because of it is miniscule at best.
I bet you don’t even observe the time honored practice of the 5 second rule (10 if you’re watching sports).
Fine, you win.
When you have the time, please send us all a list of the things in life you are allowing us to do.
Depends on how much I’ve had to drink and if the pizza lands crust first on the sidewalk.
But seriously, if you’re asking me to approve of workers whose job SPECIFICALLY involves the handling of food, glassware, cutlery etc. avoiding hand-washing especially after smoking or being outdoors I’m afraid we’ll have to agree to disagree. The play-the-percentages game may be an amusing diversion but if a waitress can’t be bothered to wash out of courtesy as opposed to some nanny state edict I probably won’t be back.
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