Campus Smoking Ban Set to Go
According to one of our nefarious sources, the Smoke Free Task Force is recommending to the administration that campus become completely smoke-free. Once enacted, the ban would not actually be enforced for a couple of years. (This would be the transitional “culture change”). However, after this there will be $15 fine if one is caught lighting up on campus.
To read the sordid history of the smoking ban, check the archives.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Sounds like another Smoke-in is in order.
July 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Somebody call Vice-President Delashaw quick, we need 100 cigars
July 19th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Here’s what you do - you plant some tobacco plants all over campus, then burn them down. BAM! What’re they going to do then?
July 20th, 2008 at 10:24 am
These sons of bitches are going to make my chillum cleverly disguised as a cigarette completely useless.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
@Timothy
Why, they’d have to fine the campus itself! And when it wouldn’t pay, they’d have to ban it from…itself.
TIme to invent a smoke free tobacco. ‘Honestly officer, I just like the feeling of sucking on a hookah NO TOBACKY IN HERE’
July 21st, 2008 at 7:55 am
This is why the Weekly Enema is the titan of satire that it is.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am
Fascists! The whole lot of ‘em!
July 21st, 2008 at 10:46 am
OC - We are going to need an emergency smoke in this Fall.
“Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher’s stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.” ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1821)
July 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
Let’s smoke to this new smoke ban!
July 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
@Vincent:
Titan? That’s high praise. I’d say ‘illegally and immorally occupying the throne of satire.’ But thank you!
@Johnny:
I say the OC and the WE join forces for a WEEK long dual smoke fest. Cigars and smoked meats.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I’ll be paying those shitheads in Monopoly money, I refuse to comply!
July 21st, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Kai - did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
Yeah, freedom and personal choice is all good. But why is it you all get so worked up over something so trivial as smoking? Aren’t there bigger issues of the majority getting down on the individual that need to be confronted?
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
Well, because some of us actually care about things and have principles. Like that a consenting adult should be able to put whatever he or she wants into his or her body without interference from the state. And, further, that the supposed harms from open-air smoking are so minimal that there’s no reason to presume others are harmed by the action. Lastly, regarding smoking bans in bars/restaurants - such laws curtail the rights of the property owner to make his/her own decision about what is or is not permitted therein. It’s pretty simple if you’re not a mouth-breathing troglodyte.
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
But why is it you all get so worked up over something so trivial as smoking?
I thought it was the anti-smoking people who’re getting worked up by smoking. We’re getting worked up by a bunch of control freaks who’re doing everything they can to ban adults on a university campus from using a legal product by engaging in some sort of smug “culture change” and levying a fine on anyone who doesn’t do what they want.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Kai, you always could buy some tobacco-free shisha..
I know midtown carries Hookah-Hookah Black, but i’m not so sure about Soex brand
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
David,
I and some friends probably will buy some tobacco free shisha and be sporting a hookah on the lawns come this regulation. I hate the smell of cigarettes and sympathize with the people asking for this regulation, but there already are regulations in place for this. Designated smoking areas and the like.
“Lastly, regarding smoking bans in bars/restaurants - such laws curtail the rights of the property owner to make his/her own decision about what is or is not permitted therein.”
McShanes, the last bastion of a smoke friendly bar in Eugene, will be losing that bonus some time next year. Some of my best bar memories involve bringing our hookah into McShanes and enjoying a pint. :(
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
“It’s pretty simple if you’re not a mouth-breathing troglodyte.”
Are mouth-breathing troglodytes included in the University’s diversity plan? If not, that’s institutional racism. Why isn’t the University doing more to alleviate social injustice against troglodytes?
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Well, Nate Gulley was a Senator.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Hey, that’s not nice …
to troglodytes. Racist.