Smoke Out - ETSU to ban all tobacco use on campus by fall

Johnson City (TN) Press ^ | February 12, 2008 | Rex Barber

[don-o]

When they came for the smokers.....

[mylife]

I bet pot is still ok

[don-o]

I remember my first quarter at UT (Knoxville). There were professors who actually allowed smoking in their classes. I thought, “Wow. They are treating us like adults.”

[Dixie Yooper]

They called my wife (an alumni) for money last night during dinner of course.

[don-o]

Did they mention the need for the increased Smoking Police?

One wonders how this will ever be enforced. Of course, with all the digital cameras, I suppose violators can be filmed by do-gooders, then hauled into tobacco court.

[napscoordinator]

I often wonder why asthma has risen ten fold since these smoke out’s have happened. I am seriously confused over this. When everyone smoked everywhere, nobody had asthma (or very few cases)...take away cigarettes and suddenly everyone has it. Strange...

[MARTIAL MONK]

Well, the obvious answer is to ban all smoking.

[Dixie Yooper]

They will probably go with the “Hey put that out!” style of enforcement until they determine what they are up against.

[ishabibble]

I don’t think this movement is about smoking at all. It’s a massive mind control social experiment. By forcing actions like this, the officials of any targeted area get to control the way people in the entire target area act. It didn’t work for booze, but it has worked for smoking. This stuff reminds me of the old Star Trek episode where people calmly lined up to be exterminated in a computer intergalactic war. Just like sheep.

[bill1952]

>stating in a news release that tobacco usage will only be permitted in private vehicles.

Wow, now that is generous.

They are allowing you to smoke in your own car. - and, I presume, even in your own home!

Imagine that! Big brother loves you ...

[don-o]

Imagine that! Big brother loves you ...

Yes, But, recall in "1984" Winston (nice, eh?) finally, after all, himself loved Big Brother.

We ain't there........yet(!)

[bill1952]

they haven't broken out the rat cages yet.

[Moonman62]

I remember my first quarter at UT (Knoxville). There were professors who actually allowed smoking in their classes. I thought, “Wow. They are treating us like adults.”

They were treating you like fellow addicts.

[Moonman62]

English major Adam Hickam said the requirement to go to his car to smoke is irritating.

Not only that, but when he goes back to class he's going to smell really bad after basting in his own smoke.

[don-o]

whatever.

May I assume that you approve of this social engineering?

[SIDENET]

Wow, now that is generous. They are allowing you to smoke in your own car. - and, I presume, even in your own home! Imagine that! Big brother loves you ...

Good point. It's like all other nanny-state control measures. Heck, my very liberal, Hillary-voting parents were telling me proudly that they are allowed to use their fireplace a couple days a week in their part of California.

[org.whodat]

I don’t let them have my phone number.

[freebird5850]

In June this year no smoking will be allowed anywhere on Boeing property, parking lots included.

[RU88]

Others on campus thought the ban was a wonderful idea. Mary Ann Murray thought the 50-foot no smoking point was too little.

“Well, as a respiratory therapist, I feel that that is very good for campus on a whole because even though they have those little outposts, you still have to walk through that cloud of smoke,” Murray said.

This reminds me very much of my current workplace. We smoke outside and you’ve got people walking by choking and gaging in the wide open air. To me it all seems incredibly absurd. It seems more akin to a mental condition than anything else. I would love to see her behind a belching bus. In my mind you can’t have it both ways. Either make tobacco products illegal, or leave me the hell alone! These nanny stater’s make me want to hurl.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Fatties be warned.