A possible campus-wide ban on tobacco products at the state’s public colleges and universities could have a significant impact on students because more than a quarter of adults ages 18 to 24 are smokers.
James Tuschman, the Ohio Board of Regents chairman, told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer that he plans to introduce a resolution later this month asking the state’s public schools to ban tobacco, an effort driven in part by the chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic.
The decision to ban tobacco would fall to each school’s board of trustees.
Of the area’s schools, Miami University and Cedarville University already have campus-wide bans. Smoking is not allowed anywhere on Miami’s campus; Cedarville doesn’t allow even possession of tobacco products.
Shows how stupid students are if they want to smoke. Let them. Death tax on the stupid.
ReplyDeleteRecently my college banned smoking in every part of the campus. There used to be tiny corners on the outer edges of campus.
ReplyDeleteI don't smoke, but am not overly alarmed about others that do. Actual statistics show that it's less than 2% of regular smokers who'll ever contract lung cancer. Of course COPD and emphysema are terrible problems, too, but COPD existed decades ago and wasn't diagnosed as such, so those numbers have to be taken with a grain salt.
STILL, adults, people. If a student wants to smoke, of course we can try to educate them, but I think we have allow certain free will.
This is a spectacular graphic. Cal, you're going to get a bad reputation for doing good work, and that will RUIN all you've done to the whole fuzzy graphic thing you're known for!
ReplyDeleteThe ban at Miami goes far toward explaining the regular updating and maintenance on this site--gotta have *something* to do with your hands when you give up the devil's weed...
ReplyDeleteSo I moved to California, where you can't smoke anywhere, pretty much. I always liked smokers as people, so I was used to a cloud of second-hand smoke. But after not being exposed to it for a decade, I now cough uncontrollably if I am.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe it's an immune system thing: a little bit of second-hand smoke is homeopathic. Or something. In any case, I'd miss the smokers, who do tend to be cooler than other people, though I can only watch them from afar now.