Help me get E-cigs un-banned! My college has banned them!

[zoiDman]

Thanks for this info. I'll be sure to say that to Dr. Kiphart! Anything else I should be sure to say to him?

Yeah... I would say that you are 100% Behind Harm Reduction of tobacco Products. And that e-Cigarettes give those who use tobacco Products a Safer Alternative.

I would make NO MENTION of any Petition. That isn't a Mechanism that works on this level of Policy making. Schools are not run on the Wishes of a Simple Majority. Or any Majority for that matter.

I would mention though that you are in the process of Collecting and Collating Documentation that supports your Position. And that you would like to meeting again AFTER the semester break to Briefly Present it.

---

You have to Understand the Cycles of a College. Right now, the push is to End the Semester and to get the Grades In. After the Break will be the Mad Rush of a New Semester and Add/Drop.

4 or 5 weeks into Spring 2013 is when you want to talk with Dr. Kiphart again. This will also give you time to formulate a Game Plan and to get your Data Together.

 

[StereoDreamer]

One thing everyone needs to remember is that the "policies" of Universities and Colleges DO NOT hold the power of law. They are essentially opinions that they can try to force you to adhere to by threatening to expel or fire you (if you are a student or faculty) if you disobey them.

And ALSO, remember that such "policies" have absolutely NO authority over you if you are not officially attached to the institution. If you are just a person visiting campus, or attending a football game or gallery opening or a public lecture, you are under NO obligation to know about or even follow these "policies". If they don't like what you are doing they CAN ask you to stop or leave. If you don't they can potentially charge you with "trespassing" but such a charge probably won't hold up in court if it is a public institution, because technically is is impossible to trespass on property that is held in common by the people.

If it is a private school, however, the threat of a trespassing charge can be very real.

Know the law. Know your rights. Don't be rude, but don't let them bully or BS you. If you really WANT to be a "test case", and don't mind potentially being manhandled, beaten, handcuffed, maced, tazed, or arrested, then that is YOUR decision. But NEVER "fight back" physically, and NEVER raise your voice or use foul language with campus administrators or LE.

Look to the Civil Rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Passive resistance. Civil Disobedience. Gaming the system. Putting "the man" in a position where YOU look like the victim and THEY look like the unreasonable, fascist bullies. Staging events that look good on camera for your cause. Working WITH local and alternative media to get YOUR side of the story out FIRST, so "the man" is always on the PR defensive.

We as vapers need to wise the "F" up with regards to how PR, media manipulation, public opinion and social activism REALLY work, or we're going to very soon find ourselves being treated like criminals by society at large, and we're going to be buying our mods and liquids in back alleys.

To the OP, I'm sending you a PM with my contact info. If you need ANY help whatsoever with putting together an event, protest, or "vape-in", PLEASE contact me. I have a fair amount of experience in dealing with college officials in "activist" type situations and with controversial issues, AND I have 2 decades of professional experience in PR, advertizing and design. I will help you in any way I can.

And I also live in the People's Republic of Maryland. I've already got a few bees in my bonnet about this fascist separatist nation-state on other issues, and this is just one more example of "official intrusion" and "nonsensical regulation" in this foul cesspit of corruption and graft that makes Maryland one of the few states that I can honestly say is a place I wouldn't go to to throw up, if it wasn't for my family living here...

 

[zoiDman]

... Putting "the man" in a position where YOU look like the victim and THEY look like the unreasonable, fascist bullies. Staging events that look good on camera for your cause. Working WITH local and alternative media to get YOUR side of the story out FIRST, so "the man" is always on the PR defensive.
...

Trust me on this one mdee4, "Street Theater" is about the Last Thing you want to Engage In.

 

[mdee4]

Yeah... I would say that you are 100% Behind Harm Reduction of Tobacco Products. And that e-Cigarettes give those who use Tobacco Products a Safer Alternative.

I would make NO MENTION of any Petition. That isn't a Mechanism that works on this level of Policy making. Schools are not run on the Wishes of a Simple Majority. Or any Majority for that matter.

I would mention though that you are in the process of Collecting and Collating Documentation that supports your Position. And that you would like to meeting again AFTER the semester break to Briefly Present it.

---

You have to Understand the Cycles of a College. Right now, the push is to End the Semester and to get the Grades In. After the Break will be the Mad Rush of a New Semester and Add/Drop.

4 or 5 weeks into Spring 2013 is when you want to talk with Dr. Kiphart again. This will also give you time to formulate a Game Plan and to get your Data Together.

Ok, what you are saying makes a lot of sense. Do you know Dr. Kiphart? Waiting that time would give me plenty of time to collect a lot of info that supports my opinion.

 

[zoiDman]

Ok, what you are saying makes a lot of sense. Do you know Dr. Kiphart? Waiting that time would give me plenty of time to collect a lot of info that supports my opinion.

No, I do not know Dr. Kiphart.

But I do know how the Dean of Student Affairs Office works. And I do know the Role it Plays in advising the President's Office and in Making Recommendations to the Board of Trustees.

I also have some Experience of How Things Do and Don't get Done at the Community College and State University Level.

 

[zoiDman]

Ok, what you are saying makes a lot of sense. Do you know Dr. Kiphart? Waiting that time would give me plenty of time to collect a lot of info that supports my opinion.

And I agree, making your Formal Presentation to Dr. Kiphart in the “Dead Weeks” next semester will give you Time to get Prepared.

I sincerely hope that part of your Preparation will Included doing some Research on the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund Program.

Cigarette Restitution Fund Program

It may be the Single Most Beneficial thing you can read. It also may be the Largest Hurdle that you may need to Overcome to make any Change your College’s e-Cigarette Policy.

 

[mdee4]

And I agree, making your Formal Presentation to Dr. Kiphart in the “Dead Weeks” next semester will give you Time to get Prepared.

I sincerely hope that part of your Preparation will Included doing some Research on the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund Program.

Cigarette Restitution Fund Program

It may be the Single Most Beneficial thing you can read. It also may be the Largest Hurdle that you may need to Overcome to make any Change your College’s e-Cigarette Policy.

What exactly is this Cigarette Restitution Fund Program? I can't read through all of it until this evening.

 

[zoiDman]

What exactly is this Cigarette Restitution Fund Program? I can't read through all of it until this evening.

I don't fully understand it.

But from the Little I have Read, it appears to have to do with Giving State Funds to Entities that are Aligned and Promote Tobacco Use Reduction.

From you Colleges web site search of "Cigarette Restitution Fund", the 1st hit was a Word Doc

CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MINUTES

April 15, 2009
Approved May 20, 2009


PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Dr. Pappalardo reported:

• Carroll will receive the Shining Star award on May 21 by the Cigarette Restitution Fund of the Carroll County Health Department for outstanding work in tobacco prevention.

---

I'm making a Leap but it could be that State Funds are available if someone like you College takes a Proactive Stance on No Tobacco Use.

If this is the case, you need to understand what is going on. So that Perhaps you could use this to show that e-Cigarettes use Reduces Tobacco Use. Hence, perhaps more or Continued funding maybe be available.

Everything I read is Old so I don't know if the Funding is still out there. But if it is, shouldn't you know about it? And try to use it in your Favor?

 

[zoiDman]

BTW - You need to get a Copy of the Official e-Cigarette Ban Policy. Don't rely on Heresy or 3rd Person Opinions. Get the Actual Text so you know Exactly what Is and what Isn't Allowed.

You can't Fight something Until you know Exactly what you are Fighting Against.

That's why a Petition at this Point is Not Very Meaningful.

 

[Njt07]

Apparently the max file size I can upload is 19kb... so here is a copy paste. hope it helps. This was a pitch paper for a fictitious company to allow ecigs int eh workplace to support smokers who wish to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Here's the presentation I made, no laughing or ridiculing...
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/79289472/ECIG in Workplace presentation v1.ppt


Purpose

The purpose of this proposal is to introduce and gain approval for the open support of personal vaporizers (PV), also known as electronic cigarettes (Ecig), for the employees of this business to promote a workplace environment of understanding and support for the smokers who wish to quit tobacco cigarettes.

Introduction

Would Electronic Cigarettes (Ecigs) benefit your business and employees? As a caring leader you are always looking for ways to benefit your employees and your business, you wouldn’t be reading this proposal if you weren’t, the kind of leader that cares for their people. Consider this, most likely some of your employees smoke, they have to go outside to a designated smoking area, they rush to and from their smoking breaks and trail a pungent odor of cigarette smoke behind them as they rush inside to get back to work. You may have observed the rise and fall of smoker’s stress levels between their smoke breaks, and if a smoker attempts to quit smoking then I am sure you have observed the Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde effect of this torturous process on your employees.
Proposed Program

I propose that your business adopts a policy of allowing smokers who have switched to Ecigs, or are considering switching to Ecigs, to use them indoors at their desks or areas of work to encourage them to quit tobacco cigarettes and live healthier than if they had continued to smoke. Open support and promotion of Ecigs in your workplace to cigarette smokers will provide tangible and intangible benefits to your business and your employees.

Why encourage the use of Ecigs over dictating tobacco cessation to your employees? Quitting smoking is an arduous process; the addiction is very difficult to break mainly because it is completely integrated into smoker’s lives. Clinical research has shown that smokers who truly want to quit, even those with life threatening diseases directly linked to their smoking, have at most a 15% chance of smoking with the aid of Nicotine replacement Therapy (NRT) (Tang et al,1993) . Clinical studies do support the use of NRT in the form of medicinal Nicotine and think it is urgent to promote complete substitution of medicinal nicotine for cigarettes for harm reduction in smokers (Kozlowski, 2001). Are Ecigs a better alternative to NRT products? At this point in time, there is no conclusive evidence that gives a definitive answer, but, there are thousands of anecdotal accounts of former cigarette smokers who have successfully quit smoking cigarettes when NRT products and simply quitting had never worked for them. Many of the anecdotal accounts are from former smokers who had been smoking for 20 years or more, many with health issues that most likely stemmed from smoking, but still could not quit smoking until they started “vaping.” Understandably, anecdotal accounts cannot substitute for hard scientific evidence, but until that evidence is published in sufficient quantities to begin to prove Ecigs are healthier, it is up to discerning and intelligent people to make the decision to support this new cigarette alternative that actually works.

Ecigs are a valid non-tobacco alternative to cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and Nicotine Replacement Therapy products with research showing the ingredients that make up the niquid, except for nicotine, have no significant health risks in the workplace on humans, primates, or test animals. Testing has shown that there is no second hand or third hand smoke, although this is debated by those groups that desire a complete end to anything related to tobacco and nicotine. Studies have shown that counter to popular belief smoking does not in fact reduce stress; it reduces the stress caused by nicotine withdrawal in between cigarettes (Parrott, 1999). Ecigs would reduce this stress, if allowed in the workplace, and the loss of efficiency caused by smoke breaks would be reduced. Use of Ecigs and nicotine liquids (niquids) with Propylene Glycol could aid in the prevention of common cold and flu from airborne bacteria and viruses as demonstrated in a 1947 University of Chicago Study of Propylene Glycol in its vaporized phase as a disinfectant and its ability to prevent airborne contagion from airborne bacteria and viruses. (Puck, 1947). What about the non-smokers in my business? A recent study has helped to prove that the vapor that is expelled from Ecigs poses no significant threat to human health or air quality as opposed to cigarettes which, in the same study, were found to pose a significant threat to human health and air quality.

Conclusion

Ecigs are a new type of product that, anecdotally, are proving to be far more effective for smokers who wish to quit tobacco cigarettes but still wish to retain the calm and focus they achieve after they smoke as a form of “stress relief”. Many smokers cannot imagine their lives without smoking cigarettes, and typically try, and fail, multiple times to quit smoking. If you allow your employees who smoke this chance to quit tobacco but still retain their habit, your business will be a model that other business owners can look to for an example.

Thank you for your time in reading this proposal,

V/R

Nathan Trotter
 
References
Insurance Quotes - Health - Smoker's Rates. (n.d.). WebQuotes. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from Insurance Quotes - Health - Smoker's Rates

Koch, W. (2012, September 17). FIERY DEBATE Some 'vape' to kick habit.USATODAY.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from FIERY DEBATE Some 'vape' to kick habit - USATODAY.com

Kozlowski, L. T., Strasser, A. A., Giovino, G. A., Erickson, P. A., & Terza, J. V. (2001, September). Applying the risk/use equilibrium: use medicinal nicotine now for harm reduction. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1747574/pdf/v010p00201.pdf

Laugesen, M., Thornley, S., McRobbie, H., & Bullen, C. (2008, March 29). How Safe is an E-Cigarette? Health New Zealand. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.healthnz.co.nz/Portland2008ECIG.pdf

Laugesen, M. (2009, April 30). Ruyan E-Cigarette Bench-top tests. Health New Zealand. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf

McAuley, T. R., Hopke, P. K., Zhao, J., & Babaian, S. (2012, October). Comparison of the Effects of E-Cigarette Vapor and Cigarette Smoke on Indoor Air Quality.An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie

McGregor, J. (2011, July 7). Should companies penalize employees who smoke?Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ees-who-smoke/2011/04/01/gIQAENh71H_blog.html

Moxham/Professor of Respiratory Medicine, J. (2000, February 12). Nicotine addiction.National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from Nicotine addiction

Parrott, A. C. (1999, October). Does Cigarette Smoking Cause Stress? American Psychological Association PsycNET. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/54/10/817/

Puck/University of Chicago, Dept of Medicine and BioChemistry, T. T. (1947, January 31). The Mechanism of Aerial Disinfection by Glycols and other Chemical Agents.National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved October 6, 2012, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135685/pdf/729.pdf

Sanders et al/EPA Antimicrobials Division, F. T. (2006, September 29). Reregistration Eligibility Decision for Propylene Glycol and Dipropylene Glycol. US Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved October 6, 2012, from http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/REDs/propylene_glycol_red.pdf

Tang, J. L., Law, M., & Wald, N. (1993, November 1). How effective is nicotine replacement therapy in helping people to stop smoking? | BMJ. BMJ. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from How effective is nicotine replacement therapy in helping people to stop smoking? | BMJ

TIME Magazine (1942, November 16). Medicine: Air Germicide - TIME. TIME.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from Medicine: Air Germicide - TIME
Full story copy pasted: Very Interesting Article | rocknrollvapor.com

 

[DC2]

What would you guys say is the best way to get ahold of CASAA?

Email board@casaa.org for quickest response.

And make sure you join CASAA too, while you're at it...
Become a CASAA Member

Trust me on this one mdee4, "Street Theater" is about the Last Thing you want to Engage In.

As a last resort, I wholeheartedly endorse such actions, but certainly not until more "reasonable" methods have been exhausted.

I need to find out who brought up the idea and decided to ban e-cigs at my college. That could be a good start at finding out the real reason why they were banned here.

I'm sure you'll find it was for no valid reason, because there isn't one.

 

[zoiDman]

...
As a last resort, I wholeheartedly endorse such actions, but certainly not until more "reasonable" methods have been exhausted.

Maybe as a Last Resort. When all Bets are Off and Nothing can be Gained. But were Nowhere near that.

...
I'm sure you'll find it was for no valid reason, because there isn't one.

If more State Funds were Available to a Community College System that is Teetering anyway, would that be a Valid Enough Reason?

Not say'n that this is the Case. But I have seen the way State and Federal Funds can be Used to Leverage an Agenda. Kinda like the 55mph Speed Limit tied to Federal Transportation Dollars.

 

[voodoocharlie]

gather all the information and contact CASAA they live for the fights

 

[flintlock62]

I agree. Someone is more apt to listen to them than an individual attempting to prove a point. They have more ammunition to shoot with.

gather all the information and contact CASAA they live for the fights

 

[DC2]

If more State Funds were Available to a Community College System that is Teetering anyway, would that be a Valid Enough Reason?

Not valid, but more understandable.

Here in California we have a lottery, and it was promised that all the money would go to education.
I don't know where all the money actually does go, but it CAN'T be going to education, or we wouldn't have an education problem.

I mean, seriously, that is a LOT of money!!!!!

So they tried to pass some proposition in the last election, to raise money for schools in some way or another.
They should have tried to pass a proposition that MADE ALL MONEY from the lottery go to schools like it was supposed to.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic now...

 

[kulet562]

that's awesome your standing up against this ban!!!

 

[mdee4]

I don't fully understand it.

But from the Little I have Read, it appears to have to do with Giving State Funds to Entities that are Aligned and Promote Tobacco Use Reduction.

From you Colleges web site search of "Cigarette Restitution Fund", the 1st hit was a Word Doc

CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MINUTES

April 15, 2009
Approved May 20, 2009


PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Dr. Pappalardo reported:

• Carroll will receive the Shining Star award on May 21 by the Cigarette Restitution Fund of the Carroll County Health Department for outstanding work in tobacco prevention.

---

I'm making a Leap but it could be that State Funds are available if someone like you College takes a Proactive Stance on No Tobacco Use.

If this is the case, you need to understand what is going on. So that Perhaps you could use this to show that e-Cigarettes use Reduces Tobacco Use. Hence, perhaps more or Continued funding maybe be available.

Everything I read is Old so I don't know if the Funding is still out there. But if it is, shouldn't you know about it? And try to use it in your Favor?

Thank you so much for this! This is very beneficial. I talked to the Dean. I will update my original post explaining what must happen now in order to make a change.

 

[mdee4]

Apparently the max file size I can upload is 19kb... so here is a copy paste. hope it helps. This was a pitch paper for a fictitious company to allow ecigs int eh workplace to support smokers who wish to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Here's the presentation I made, no laughing or ridiculing...
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/79289472/ECIG in Workplace presentation v1.ppt


Purpose

The purpose of this proposal is to introduce and gain approval for the open support of personal vaporizers (PV), also known as electronic cigarettes (Ecig), for the employees of this business to promote a workplace environment of understanding and support for the smokers who wish to quit tobacco cigarettes.

Introduction

Would Electronic Cigarettes (Ecigs) benefit your business and employees? As a caring leader you are always looking for ways to benefit your employees and your business, you wouldn’t be reading this proposal if you weren’t, the kind of leader that cares for their people. Consider this, most likely some of your employees smoke, they have to go outside to a designated smoking area, they rush to and from their smoking breaks and trail a pungent odor of cigarette smoke behind them as they rush inside to get back to work. You may have observed the rise and fall of smoker’s stress levels between their smoke breaks, and if a smoker attempts to quit smoking then I am sure you have observed the Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde effect of this torturous process on your employees.
Proposed Program

I propose that your business adopts a policy of allowing smokers who have switched to Ecigs, or are considering switching to Ecigs, to use them indoors at their desks or areas of work to encourage them to quit tobacco cigarettes and live healthier than if they had continued to smoke. Open support and promotion of Ecigs in your workplace to cigarette smokers will provide tangible and intangible benefits to your business and your employees.

Why encourage the use of Ecigs over dictating tobacco cessation to your employees? Quitting smoking is an arduous process; the addiction is very difficult to break mainly because it is completely integrated into smoker’s lives. Clinical research has shown that smokers who truly want to quit, even those with life threatening diseases directly linked to their smoking, have at most a 15% chance of smoking with the aid of Nicotine replacement Therapy (NRT) (Tang et al,1993) . Clinical studies do support the use of NRT in the form of medicinal Nicotine and think it is urgent to promote complete substitution of medicinal nicotine for cigarettes for harm reduction in smokers (Kozlowski, 2001). Are Ecigs a better alternative to NRT products? At this point in time, there is no conclusive evidence that gives a definitive answer, but, there are thousands of anecdotal accounts of former cigarette smokers who have successfully quit smoking cigarettes when NRT products and simply quitting had never worked for them. Many of the anecdotal accounts are from former smokers who had been smoking for 20 years or more, many with health issues that most likely stemmed from smoking, but still could not quit smoking until they started “vaping.” Understandably, anecdotal accounts cannot substitute for hard scientific evidence, but until that evidence is published in sufficient quantities to begin to prove Ecigs are healthier, it is up to discerning and intelligent people to make the decision to support this new cigarette alternative that actually works.

Ecigs are a valid non-tobacco alternative to cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and Nicotine Replacement Therapy products with research showing the ingredients that make up the niquid, except for nicotine, have no significant health risks in the workplace on humans, primates, or test animals. Testing has shown that there is no second hand or third hand smoke, although this is debated by those groups that desire a complete end to anything related to tobacco and nicotine. Studies have shown that counter to popular belief smoking does not in fact reduce stress; it reduces the stress caused by nicotine withdrawal in between cigarettes (Parrott, 1999). Ecigs would reduce this stress, if allowed in the workplace, and the loss of efficiency caused by smoke breaks would be reduced. Use of Ecigs and nicotine liquids (niquids) with Propylene Glycol could aid in the prevention of common cold and flu from airborne bacteria and viruses as demonstrated in a 1947 University of Chicago Study of Propylene Glycol in its vaporized phase as a disinfectant and its ability to prevent airborne contagion from airborne bacteria and viruses. (Puck, 1947). What about the non-smokers in my business? A recent study has helped to prove that the vapor that is expelled from Ecigs poses no significant threat to human health or air quality as opposed to cigarettes which, in the same study, were found to pose a significant threat to human health and air quality.

Conclusion

Ecigs are a new type of product that, anecdotally, are proving to be far more effective for smokers who wish to quit tobacco cigarettes but still wish to retain the calm and focus they achieve after they smoke as a form of “stress relief”. Many smokers cannot imagine their lives without smoking cigarettes, and typically try, and fail, multiple times to quit smoking. If you allow your employees who smoke this chance to quit tobacco but still retain their habit, your business will be a model that other business owners can look to for an example.

Thank you for your time in reading this proposal,

V/R

Nathan Trotter
 
References
Insurance Quotes - Health - Smoker's Rates. (n.d.). WebQuotes. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from Insurance Quotes - Health - Smoker's Rates

Koch, W. (2012, September 17). FIERY DEBATE Some 'vape' to kick habit.USATODAY.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from FIERY DEBATE Some 'vape' to kick habit - USATODAY.com

Kozlowski, L. T., Strasser, A. A., Giovino, G. A., Erickson, P. A., & Terza, J. V. (2001, September). Applying the risk/use equilibrium: use medicinal nicotine now for harm reduction. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1747574/pdf/v010p00201.pdf

Laugesen, M., Thornley, S., McRobbie, H., & Bullen, C. (2008, March 29). How Safe is an E-Cigarette? Health New Zealand. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.healthnz.co.nz/Portland2008ECIG.pdf

Laugesen, M. (2009, April 30). Ruyan E-Cigarette Bench-top tests. Health New Zealand. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf

McAuley, T. R., Hopke, P. K., Zhao, J., & Babaian, S. (2012, October). Comparison of the Effects of E-Cigarette Vapor and Cigarette Smoke on Indoor Air Quality.An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie

McGregor, J. (2011, July 7). Should companies penalize employees who smoke?Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ees-who-smoke/2011/04/01/gIQAENh71H_blog.html

Moxham/Professor of Respiratory Medicine, J. (2000, February 12). Nicotine addiction.National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from Nicotine addiction

Parrott, A. C. (1999, October). Does Cigarette Smoking Cause Stress? American Psychological Association PsycNET. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/54/10/817/

Puck/University of Chicago, Dept of Medicine and BioChemistry, T. T. (1947, January 31). The Mechanism of Aerial Disinfection by Glycols and other Chemical Agents.National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved October 6, 2012, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135685/pdf/729.pdf

Sanders et al/EPA Antimicrobials Division, F. T. (2006, September 29). Reregistration Eligibility Decision for Propylene Glycol and Dipropylene Glycol. US Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved October 6, 2012, from http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/REDs/propylene_glycol_red.pdf

Tang, J. L., Law, M., & Wald, N. (1993, November 1). How effective is nicotine replacement therapy in helping people to stop smoking? | BMJ. BMJ. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from How effective is nicotine replacement therapy in helping people to stop smoking? | BMJ

TIME Magazine (1942, November 16). Medicine: Air Germicide - TIME. TIME.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from Medicine: Air Germicide - TIME
Full story copy pasted: Very Interesting Article | rocknrollvapor.com

Thanks for this. I should be able to put this info to use. Please read my original post again. I am about to update it with what my school says I need to do now.

 

[mdee4]

Everyone, please read my original post. I'm updating it with what my school says I need to do now!

 

[AttyPops]

It's nice that you're making progress and pursuing rational means to remove the ban. Kudos to you.

Also, TLDR all posts.

OTOH....where's that college spirit of days gone by? Since when has banning anything ever worked on a college campus?

What did you say the fine was?