[Lijahsbubbe]

KAYLA HELKAMP

School: North High School in North St. Paul

Age: 17

Hometown: Maplewood

Accomplishment: Leading a campaign to ban tobacco in Maplewood's parks.

Goal: To become a cop.

ELISA THORSON

School: North High School in North St. Paul

Age: 16

Hometown: North St. Paul Accomplishment: Leading a campaign to ban tobacco in Maplewood's parks.

Goal: Plans to attend college and become a psychologist.

CAROLYN WIGER

School: North High School in North St. Paul

Age: 17

Hometown: North St. Paul

Accomplishment: Leading a campaign to ban tobacco in Maplewood's parks.

GOAL: PLANS TO ATTEND MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MANKATO AND BECOME A CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND REHAB COUNSELOR. FYI

Cities in the metro area with tobacco-free park and recreational facilities: Anoka, Andover, Brooklyn Center, Champlin, Coon Rapids, Eagan, Eden Prairie, Edina, Golden Valley, Mahtomedi, Maple Grove, New Brighton, Plymouth, Ramsey, Richfield, Roseville, St. Paul, Savage, Shoreview

[annyokie]

Puff ping!

[Rakkasan1]

I love these self-rightous children of libs. The irony is
they're probably "pro-choice" and don't consider their
own parents to be their personal role models.

[cyborg]

You just reminded me of a cuban cigarillo I hid from my mom hehe!

[edg2103]

I don't see what's so wrong with banning smoking in public places. We ban public drunkenness, don't we? Anyway, cigarettes are a gateway drug that lead to marijuana abuse and eventually to consumption and sale to children of kilos of freebase crack cocaine.

[Gabz]

I do not, never have, and never will promote smoking cigarettes by anyone.......however this crapola is totally getting out of hand.

[Dan from Michigan]

Goal: To become a cop.

Now THAT scares the hell out of me.

[Electrowoman]

Now we're cheering on bans on bad role models?! Oh mercy.

So, then...
Can we ban fat guys in Packer shirts and zuba pants?
Can we ban fat girls in low rise jeans and shirts that say "juicy" or "porn star"?
Can we ban people who wear slippers to the convenience store?
Can we ban homeless people? (please?)
Can we ban pregnant teenagers?
Can we ban drag queens wearing sequines and neon feather boas? (oh god, please!)
Can we ban budding liberal teenagers who want to promote a nanny state in Minnesota and anywhere else in the U.S. and who will eventually grow up to vote for candidates who who will raise my taxes?

Or could I please just step outside and smoke a cigarette? Is it TOO MUCH TO ASK to let me smoke outside in the rain, or the freezing cold or the snow storm or the sweltering sun? I guess it is.

[Raycpa]

Good kids.

[Viking2002]

*Viking takes a puff from his Marlboro and blows a perfectly-shaped smoke ring toward them*

Ban this.

[Mears]

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