Board of Regents votes to ban tobacco use on Georgia college campuses
March 19, 2014
On March 19 the Board of Regents passed a policy banning tobacco use at all University System of Georgia schools.
Beginning Oct. 1, 2014, all forms of tobacco or simulated tobacco use on all properties owned and used by USG colleges and universities will be prohibited. This includes cigarettes, pipes, cigars and electronic cigarettes.
The decision applies to “employees, students, contractors, subcontractors and visitors and is applicable 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” according to the Tobacco and Smoke-Free Campus Policy.
Watch for more information on how this will affect Georgia Highlands College in the April issue of the Six Mile Post.
Anon Guy • May 30, 2014 at 5:21 am
I don’t support the spirit of the ban at all. It is precisely a mean-spirited thing, and it amounts to nothing but a smug and righteous impulse to bully especially the smokers, but nicotine addicts altogether. They take up a vote as to whether to allow people to do that or not, and since it’s their decision, they just say “no,” and they do that because they can. Of course it occasions resentment. It offends the dignity of addicts, and perhaps not without a little glee, willful cruelty, posing as merely benign. It’s the product of an ignorant and false morality, and it’s a completely crude moralism.
The long evoked rationales for banning cigarettes simply don’t apply to nicotine vaporizers, but they decided to ban them anyway, because of a resemblance to cigarettes. A resemblance, a similar appearance. They think that’s okay because “It will be good for them.” Or, “better for them.” Let someone violently intrude on their lives like this, tell them what it would better for them to do or not do. These fantasies fill the minds of people looking to make the new man, like the old New Soviet Man. We know where that leads. We can just gradually eliminate imperfections like this, until people in the future are better. Let me start making a wish list!