NY State bans e-cigs on school grounds

[CarolT]

Law Banning E-Cigarettes on School Grounds Signed by Governor

"School yards should be full of the laughter of healthy children, not e-cigarette vapor,” [Rosenthal] said in a statement. "Banning e-cigarette use on school grounds statewide will help reduce e-cigarette use rates among our young people and will protect the health and safety of their growing bodies.”

Law Banning E-Cigarettes on School Grounds Signed by Governor

These fools can't even protect kids from violence, yet here they are conjuring up fantasy worlds populated by innocent babes.

 

[retired1]

I honestly don't have an issue with this. Although it's feel good legislation, minors shouldn't be in possession of e-cigarettes to begin with.

 

[leftyandsparky]

I know back in 2013 and my son's elementary school they banned all parents in the car line or school property smoking with cigarettes or e-cigs. I still vaped in the car with the air on! I mtl so there was nothing to see.

 

[Myrany]

I know back in 2013 and my son's elementary school they banned all parents in the car line or school property smoking with cigarettes or e-cigs. I still vaped in the car with the air on! I mtl so there was nothing to see.

Here both smoking and ecigs are banned from use by anyone anywhere on school grounds. Is it annoying when I go to pick up the hubby from work and I end up sitting in the parking lot waiting for him (for sometimes an hour or longer) yes, but I really do not have a problem with it.

 

[leftyandsparky]

I don't either. I know I used to see a lot of parents stand outside side of their cars and smoke and it was brought up at a pta meeting then went county wide.

 

[Rossum]

OMG, the children might SEE someone vaping. We can't have that!

 

[sofarsogood]

I'd like to see the actual bill that was signed to see what's prohibited and the punishment.

In my highschool days I carried cigs into the building everyday. I never smoked on school grounds. Are there going to be metal detectors at the entrances or stop and frisk? In my high school there was never anything like that.

 

[Painter_]

I'd like to see the actual bill that was signed to see what's prohibited and the punishment.

In my highschool days I carried cigs into the building everyday. I never smoked on school grounds. Are there going to be metal detectors at the entrances or stop and frisk? In my high school there was never anything like that.

When I was in High School they had a smoking room for the students during the winter and an area outside for good weather.

 

[Myrany]

I'd like to see the actual bill that was signed to see what's prohibited and the punishment.

In my highschool days I carried cigs into the building everyday. I never smoked on school grounds. Are there going to be metal detectors at the entrances or stop and frisk? In my high school there was never anything like that.

My high school had designated smoking areas for students and teachers. Yeah my age is showing LMAO. That was late 70s early 80s.

 

[Beamslider]

When I was in high school there was a smoking area for students and teachers outside.

 

[puffon]

When I was in school the "boys" room was the only smoking room.
I think there was a song about that.

 

[Rossum]

When I was in school the "boys" room was the only smoking room.
I think there was a song about that.

Mid 1970s. The smoke wafting from the girls room every time the door opened was just as thick as from the boys room. Teachers had a "lounge" that was even worse.

I guess I'm probably one of the few people here who did not smoke in high school. I only started the summer after my first year in college, where smoking was allowed pretty much everywhere except in classrooms.

 

[tokarev]

I graduated high school in 1974. We had a designated smoking area for students (outside only). I smoked there several times a day. Smoking in the rest rooms was forbidden and could get you a paddling and/or 3 day suspension.

Thinking about high school reminds me of the time someone flushed an M80 in the boys room and literally blew the toilet off the wall. Not a very smart thing to do but at the time we thought it was hilarious. I don't think they ever caught the guy either. (And no, it wasn't me...I wasn't that brave or foolhardy in my teens.)

 

[sofarsogood]

I haven't found what the NY governor actually signed to see what it actually says. Anyone know how to find that?

 

[retired1]

New York State Assembly | Bill Search and Legislative Information

 

[CarolT]

I think people need to stop being so acquiescent to the government's expanding tyranny, and start taking back all the freedom it has stolen from us. The people are supposed to be the masters of the state, not the other way around.

 

[retired1]

If you can show me where vaping by minors is a freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights, I'll be more than happy to retract my first statement.

 

[AlphaGuitarist]

NY is a nanny state, so I am not surprised at all.

 

[CarolT]

If you can show me where vaping by minors is a freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights, I'll be more than happy to retract my first statement.

We don't need any specific Constitutional guarantee of a specific freedom to take back our liberty. That misrepresentation is in fact a treacherous attack, because the purpose of the Constitution is to define what the federal government may do, while leaving the rest to the states or to the people. It is NOT the purpose of the Constitution to list what is permitted to the people.

 

[Kent C]

The Ninth Amendment (Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.