As of Jan. 1st, the Univ. of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana will be a smoke free campus. If anyone has visited (or attended), you know how massive this campus is. Implementation will be a nightmare, to say the least.
What troubles me the most, though, is that vaping will be banned as well. While I no longer attend the school, I do visit coffee shops to work (and vape). In the Dec. 15th edition of the News Gazette the author writes:
"Campus officials say the industry (e-cig) is relatively new and unregulated, which puts users at risk. And some studies have shown that the vapor contains a similar carcinogen to tobacco smoke. The CDC and other public health organizations discourage their use, said Michele Guerra, director of the UI Wellness Center. "We don't know enough about their risks," she said.
To add insult to injury:
"The Activities and Recreation Center, State Farm Center, Illini Union and residence halls will sell nicotine gum or lozenges, and the campus has "quit kits" with tips to help people get through the cravings, she said." (Dec. 15).
So you're telling me that a smoking alternative with a substantially high rate of helping people quit (or significantly decrease) smoking is banned, but products that have proven to be marginally effective are not only allowed to bypass said policy: they are being sold by the university?! GTFOH! I wonder how much grant money is provided to the university by mega pharmaceutical corporations...? Also, I don't know how many of the other 1,100 college campuses that currently ban smoking on their campuses are profiting off of bunk smoking cessation products, but I'm curious.
There was an opportunity for the U of I to realistically help thousands of smokers live healthier lives- realistically, how many people will smoke anyway: there's no binding sanctions for violators- but the Administration would rather line their pockets and save face. While it ranks first amongst public universities in terms of engineering science and engineering physics, the U of I is demonstrating that it needs remediation within the realms of leadership and ethics.
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What troubles me the most, though, is that vaping will be banned as well. While I no longer attend the school, I do visit coffee shops to work (and vape). In the Dec. 15th edition of the News Gazette the author writes:
"Campus officials say the industry (e-cig) is relatively new and unregulated, which puts users at risk. And some studies have shown that the vapor contains a similar carcinogen to tobacco smoke. The CDC and other public health organizations discourage their use, said Michele Guerra, director of the UI Wellness Center. "We don't know enough about their risks," she said.
To add insult to injury:
"The Activities and Recreation Center, State Farm Center, Illini Union and residence halls will sell nicotine gum or lozenges, and the campus has "quit kits" with tips to help people get through the cravings, she said." (Dec. 15).
So you're telling me that a smoking alternative with a substantially high rate of helping people quit (or significantly decrease) smoking is banned, but products that have proven to be marginally effective are not only allowed to bypass said policy: they are being sold by the university?! GTFOH! I wonder how much grant money is provided to the university by mega pharmaceutical corporations...? Also, I don't know how many of the other 1,100 college campuses that currently ban smoking on their campuses are profiting off of bunk smoking cessation products, but I'm curious.
There was an opportunity for the U of I to realistically help thousands of smokers live healthier lives- realistically, how many people will smoke anyway: there's no binding sanctions for violators- but the Administration would rather line their pockets and save face. While it ranks first amongst public universities in terms of engineering science and engineering physics, the U of I is demonstrating that it needs remediation within the realms of leadership and ethics.
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), you made me look at this thread again. Let me know when you guys go down and do this, I just might take the Bullet Train down and watch you get tased while I vape away in the bushes. Naw, I’ll probably come charging out of the shrubs in your defense and get tased too. Did I mention my Dad was law professor? 
It's nothing more than discrimination disguised as political correctness.
