Because I think I will always find something to be bitter and resentful towards... I decided I'd add more to my degrading commentary on the Smokers still complaining on my campus.
This past week I read an article in our school newspaper against the ban... while the person's heart may have been in the right place... i still threw the newspaper out thinking that person was a complete dope.
"You can't make smoking illegal on campus... because it is a culture, and you shouldn't oppress a culture."
Not a direct quote obviously, since i disposed of the paper in my disgust. But the person generally had this kind of idea going...
So essentially, people think the smoking ban shouldn't stick... because everybody does it.
Because it is socially acceptable and so standard for people to smoke... why should there be rules against it.
ugh.. what a nitwit.
Drinking is something 90% of people do and people are addicted to... but you don't see me walking around with a beer on my dry campus... mumbling and grumbling about how everyone does it, and I disagree with the rule, and it's socially acceptable and a culture.
Fuckk you...
Listen, people were allowed to smoke on all the campuses... but you were supposed to smoke 25 feet away from building entry-ways.
But... people didn't do that, they stood right in the doorways... especially in the rainy and cold weather... they stand right outside the doors.
Now, since... no one can be considerate enough to move away from the doorways there are rules banning smoking on campuses... that's what you get.
You people couldn't even walk 25 feet... now you need to walk off campus. Good!
But since you disagree with the rule, you continue to smoke at the building doorways.... that's the most you're going to do to defend your position... that and join a facebook group.
If you people are so passionate about smoking, and your culture... maybe you can do more than rebel by smoking closer to the buildings now and making claims that it shouldn't be against the rules because everyone's doing it... these are the exact same approaches 8th graders take in similar situations.
So maybe you can make a petition... or maybe get representation in Student Government Board and make an argument against it for all the PA schools, (another article in my paper noted how no one showed up or brought that topic up at SGB) who knows... maybe I'll represent you and get my Smoker Box installed on campuses... or maybe we can at least get some Gazebo's or Cages you guys can smoke in...
BTW, if you're a smoker... and you think in my approach I've been rude, or arrogant or whatever... I know... I meant to be.
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I'm down with Smoker Boxes, smoke rooms, etc., or hell just an awning is nice. When I'm at a hospital in the rain, I smoke as far away from the doors and high traffic areas as I can get while still being covered - hospitals know this, that's why the ashtrays are always across the entry driveway but still under the pavilion.
The problem isn't some culture clash, or even some health issues... it's just a group of people doing something that makes a bad smell and a group of people that don't want to smell it. Give me a place to stink it up that works in sun and rain and I'm 100% there.
For the record: the two studies upon which all future studies have been based (as they are cited as primary resources for the AHLA, the ACS, and numerous other research groups) were done by the WHO and the EPA.
The EPA study was thrown out of evidence in court repeatedly due to blatant cherry-picking of data. The WHO study actually concluded that second-hand smoke has no connection to cancer risk, but the press release for whatever reason stated the exact opposite.
And although most smokers I've known do try to avoid blowing smoke into people's faces, avoid doorways, etc... I've seen others stand in front of hospital doors as people are wheeled by and I am repeatedly baffled that there are actually cigarette butts on the ground next to SMOKER'S OUTPOST ASHTRAYS. You know, the ones that are shaped like a 4-foot genie bottle? WHAT THE HELL KIND OF LAZINESS IS THAT? That's like seeing trash laying 2 feet from a trash can.
People are self-centered idiots unwilling to deal with each other. The only fair solutions in that type of situation are:
1. Either tell them (both sides) to grow the fuck up and stop dicking each other over, or
2. Separate them.
I'm always pro-smoke huts\cigar rooms\smoking decks\etc, and I think most people, smokers and non-smokers, are too. The solution is so simple that it's obvious the "problem" is manufactured (by politicians, pharmaceutical companies, and lawyers)
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