No Smoking

[JayJ79]

According to OPR, smoking isn't allowed anywhere on the UNI campus, including the parking lots.


Now, I can understand banning smoking indoors. But banning it everywhere even outdoors seems a bit extreme. There isn't really a second-hand smoke issue when people are outside.

I'm not a smoker, so it doesn't really bother me personally. I just find it surprising to hear.

[06panther10]

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This is true, there is signs put up around the parking lots now.

[re17282]

Re: No Smoking

According to OPR, smoking isn't allowed anywhere on the UNI campus, including the parking lots.


Now, I can understand banning smoking indoors. But banning it everywhere even outdoors seems a bit extreme. There isn't really a second-hand smoke issue when people are outside.

I'm not a smoker, so it doesn't really bother me personally. I just find it surprising to hear.

Doesn't surprise me in the least bit,,,, now if they ban beer outdoors,,,

[clenz]

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That was something UNI put in not the state I believe. I could be wrong though

[JayJ79]

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That was something UNI put in not the state I believe. I could be wrong though

I thought it was a state thing.

[Matt Trump]

Re: No Smoking

I thought it was a state thing.

The indoor smoking ban is.

[DomeRanger Posse]

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It's a state thing. When the smoking ban passed, it also prohibited smoking on all state-owned property. Seeing as the UNI campus is state-owned, no smoking anywhere on campus. There is some vaguery even about the one's ability to legally smoke in a state park.

I'm actively ignoring it anyway. It's another ticket for me to ignore, should I get one.

[Panther-at-Arms]

Re: No Smoking

State property and school grounds are now prohibited areas.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I'm all for it, but I'm not a smoker (hello Mr. Obvious). I just don't like to walk through a wall of smoke as I enter or exit a building.

[JayJ79]

Re: No Smoking

I'm all for it, but I'm not a smoker (hello Mr. Obvious). I just don't like to walk through a wall of smoke as I enter or exit a building.

well yeah, the smoking areas right outside main entrances are annoying.
but I don't see why someone smoking in the middle of a parking lot should be an issue.

[clenz]

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I thought UNI banned smoking on campus prior to the state law. I must have been mistaken though.

I don't smoke, but if someone wants to smoke in the middle of a parking lot so be it.

[ubuntuCAT]

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If I remember right UNI was planning on going smoke free next year but the new law mandated it early

[clenz]

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If I remember right UNI was planning on going smoke free next year but the new law mandated it early

Touche. I couldn't remember if it went into effect already or if it was next year

[Newsbreaker]

Re: No Smoking

It's a state thing. When the smoking ban passed, it also prohibited smoking on all state-owned property. Seeing as the UNI campus is state-owned, no smoking anywhere on campus. There is some vaguery even about the one's ability to legally smoke in a state park.

I'm actively ignoring it anyway. It's another ticket for me to ignore, should I get one.

Mature.

[DomeRanger Posse]

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Well, I prefer to look at it as practicing civil disobediance. I believe the law is unjust and discriminatory, and as such I am willing to break the law and face any penalties that may ensue. Here at ISU, they spent thousands of dollars in salaries and disposal fees to remove all the ashtrays from campus prior to the beginning of classes. In an era when colleges are constantly facing an uphill battle for funding and complaining about not having enough money for renovations, the righteous indignation of blue hairs and morally important idiots has now taken further money away from renovations and repairs in the name of prohibition and ill-thought moral reform.