NY Times article reveals (but fails to acknowledge) that tobacco usage bans (including vaping bans) at college campuses are unenforceable and unenforc

[Bill Godshall]

NY Times article reveals (but fails to acknowledge) the hypocrisy of unwarranted and unenforceable tobacco usage bans (and vaping bans) at college campuses (and many other outdoor smoking and tobacco use bans, as well as most indoor usage bans for smokeless tobacco and e-cigs).
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/u...o-but-questions-about-enforcement-linger.html?

I'm not aware that any of these tobacco usage bans (at more than 1,000 universities and college campuses) have ever been enforced.

Virtually every university spokesman has claimed that their tobacco use bans (including vaping bans) are not enforced and/or are not going to be enforced, but instead should be viewed as educational opportunities.

Nothing like enacting laws and policies that were (from the outset) never intended to be enforced. Then again, many universities and colleges used to have (and some still have) official policies that banned students from drinking alcohol, smoking {OTHER STUFF} and having sex on campus (which were also rarely if ever enforced).

 

[DrMA]

I don't think anybody is fooled into thinking these bans have any other outcome than to further demonize and marginalize tobacco and nicotine users. It is a relentless campaign by ANTZ to tar and feather all of us, such that their systematic efforts to murder 44 million American smokers are interpreted by the public as noble pursuits of public health.

 

[dragonpuff]

As I noted in another of my posts, at the university where I used to attend, all the campus wide smoking ban did was lead to more cigarette butts on the ground, since they removed all the ashtrays... it was so bad that one student organization was considering handing out pocket ashtrays to students who smoke.

The ban was never enforced, it was simply "stated" at orientations and in signs placed on campus.

Some have theorized that the university may have gotten a grant from the state for issuing the ban, since it seemed to serve no other purpose...