Local college bans tobacco products, allows ecigs

[440BB]

I'm happy to share that the community college in our city has made their campus tobacco free and recognized that ecigs are not a tobacco product!

The article - Smokes are no longer on the syllabus at OCC | C & G Newspapers

Perhaps this example can help elsewhere when a tobacco free policy is being established.

 

[18SixFifty]

Thanks for sharing the link.

 

[DaveP]

Information dissemination about ecigs is key to acceptance. People need to understand the difference. Once they do, they realize it's not just another way to smoke, but a way to get off the carcinogens and wean off nicotine at the same time. People who say, "Well, you're still smoking!", just don't understand the difference.

Banning ecigs is just the method by which the tobacco nazis show their lack of tolerance for those who try to quit or make the transition to something safer. It's the look of vaping that they can't stand. Never mind that's it's a much safer way to get off tobacco.

 

[VapApe]

What I like to know is how are they planing to do a mouth search for snus and snuff?
I don't think they will get to far on that LOL

 

[Petrodus]

I suggest most students, that use tobacco, will not run scared
and find ways and places to continue their habit ... on campus.

 

[JENerationX]

While I'm glad that they didn't include e-cigs in the ban...... it's sad to see a ban in the first place.

 

[mwplefty]

Smoking bans on college campuses, especially outdoor bans, have about a 50% failure rate. People will smoke where they want, particularly outside. The only way to create effective designated smoking areas is to place them in indoor lounges (like cigar bars) where smokers can congregate away from non-smokers. Designated smoking dorms and apartments would also be a great idea.

 

[kristin]

Stupid. Smoke-free tobacco isn't anymore a risk to users or bystanders than e-cigarettes.

And I see no need to "wean off nicotine." In fact, these ANTZ are ticking me off so much, I'm about ready to start smoking again just to give them one less "win."

 

[dagnagan]

When did "Smoke-free" become "Tobacco-free" and why? There's just no rational justification for it.

On websites encouraging colleges to go tobacco-free, they move seamlessly from listing all the evils of secondhand smoke to talking about how to make the campus tobacco-free, without acknowledging that there is any difference. One of these organizations did justify tobacco prohibition by saying that allowing people to use smokeless tobacco "implies a bystander mentality," i.e. letting people harm themselves without intervening.

That has got to be the weakest argument ever for interfering with the personal choices of an adult. Weak and at the same time just evil.

 

[AttyPops]

I'm opposed to outdoor smoking bans too, although I can see them as "not by the entrances". The usual excuse is fire insurance. Laughable.

I think outdoor smoking bans are unconstitutional as long as it's a legal product and not near doorways. And as far as banning smokeless tobacco use......totally unconstitutional IMO. These are the same groups that try to tell you that you can't go into a parking lot and smoke in your own car simply because it's on their property. Illegal. Un-American. Wrong.

 

[440BB]

The point of this thread is that ecigs were separated from the general catchall "tobacco products" and allowed, which is a good thing.

 

[AttyPops]

The point of this thread is that ecigs were separated from the general catchall "tobacco products" and allowed, which is a good thing.

True. I got pulled into the tobacco war. Good point and "Hoorah for e-cigs" making progress!

Still....Grrrrr........

 

[classwife]

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