Bona to be smoke-free campus 7/1/19

[ohs73]

Per OTH. Only a few more months for students, profs and staff to get their tokes in.

[fan4ever]

SBU going the way of many schools and businesses. Good for everyone's health. Think that within the next 25 years cigarettes in the US will be mostly gone. This is also a preemption against smoking weed on campus when it eventually becomes legal in NY.

[efsboca]

Apr 21, 2019 8:29:30 GMT -5 fan4ever said:

SBU going the way of many schools and businesses. Good for everyone's health. Think that within the next 25 years cigarettes in the US will be mostly gone. This is also a preemption against smoking weed on campus when it eventually becomes legal in NY.

Is this just for inside buildings or the whole campus?

[Bonas08]

Apr 21, 2019 14:33:12 GMT -5 efsboca said:

Apr 21, 2019 8:29:30 GMT -5 fan4ever said:

SBU going the way of many schools and businesses. Good for everyone's health. Think that within the next 25 years cigarettes in the US will be mostly gone. This is also a preemption against smoking weed on campus when it eventually becomes legal in NY.

Is this just for inside buildings or the whole campus?

Not sure if you realize its 2019, smoking (legally) in buildings hasnt been a thing in ages!

[firstdev]

Do not believe that this is appropriate. If a student (possibly a veteran), faculty member, staff, alum or visitor wants to light up in the parking lot or on the way to class - no one should be concerned. That is their decision, and not the university's or state government of anyone else for that matter. This is again a matter of liberty, and ability of adults to make their own decision. Suppressing smoking is a waste of time and effort.
What exactly will be the sanction? Who will enforce the sanction? Will the campus police now be charged with harassing adults smoking on campus? Just preposterous group think.
Another example of political correctness run amok. Don't go there.
By the way not a smoker, never smoked in my life, except for a few cigars at my stag party.

[firstdev]

Apr 21, 2019 17:31:49 GMT -5 Bonas08 said:

Apr 21, 2019 14:33:12 GMT -5 efsboca said:

Is this just for inside buildings or the whole campus?

Not sure if you realize its 2019, smoking (legally) in buildings hasnt been a thing in ages!

So what? That makes the suppression of smoking for adults on the whole campus Ok? Really? Completely unenforceable, just like prohibition. And whats the proposed penalty - throw a student paying tuition and R and B out of school for smoking a Camel? Patently absurd on its face.

[firstdev]

Apr 21, 2019 8:29:30 GMT -5 fan4ever said:

SBU going the way of many schools and businesses. Good for everyone's health. Think that within the next 25 years cigarettes in the US will be mostly gone. This is also a preemption against smoking weed on campus when it eventually becomes legal in NY.

Well the alternative is to make it crystal clear by explicit university regulations that in conformance with federal law, SBU will not allow weed to be smoked on campus, regardless of what NY law may or may state in the near future. Banning smoking of cigs is absurd.

[dev56]

Apr 21, 2019 18:16:22 GMT -5 firstdev said:

Do not believe that this is appropriate. If a student (possibly a veteran), faculty member, staff, alum or visitor wants to light up in the parking lot or on the way to class - no one should be concerned. That is their decision, and not the university's or state government of anyone else for that matter. This is again a matter of liberty, and ability of adults to make their own decision. Suppressing smoking is a waste of time and effort.
What exactly will be the sanction? Who will enforce the sanction? Will the campus police now be charged with harassing adults smoking on campus? Just preposterous group think.
Another example of political correctness run amok. Don't go there.
By the way not a smoker, never smoked in my life, except for a few cigars at my stag party.

[dev56]

Only problem the argument is that the campus is private property not public.

[fan4ever]

This new policy covers the entire campus including the interiors of buildings. Sanctions for inside residence buildings could include a stiff cleaning fee like most hotels/motels and car rental companies charge. Not sure how this would be enforced outside. A compromise could be to create outside smoking areas like in some parking areas. SBU's smoke-free policy mirrors similar policies across the nation....not just confined to the SBU campus.

[dadster81]

Off Campus Housing applauds this decision

[class70]

I'm with firstdev on this. I don't smoke, but I wish the nanny society we live in would let people make their own decisions. Take five and smoke 'em if you've got 'em.

[firstdev]

Apr 22, 2019 9:42:23 GMT -5 fan4ever said:

This new policy covers the entire campus including the interiors of buildings. Sanctions for inside residence buildings could include a stiff cleaning fee like most hotels/motels and car rental companies charge. Not sure how this would be enforced outside. A compromise could be to create outside smoking areas like in some parking areas. SBU's smoke-free policy mirrors similar policies across the nation....not just confined to the SBU campus.

An enforcement nightmare no one wants or no one needs. Way too much of PC group think baloney here. Adults can make their own decisions. Will Frians be prohibited from smoking in their own on campus apartments? Just alot of super liberal bunk here.

[agoo]

The moment someone who decides to smoke blows smoke in or near my face makes it something that is no longer their decision that only impacts them.

This is a good decision.

[firstdev]

Apr 22, 2019 13:26:49 GMT -5 agoo said:

The moment someone who decides to smoke blows smoke in or near my face makes it something that is no longer their decision that only impacts them.

This is a good decision.

This concerns smoking outdoors only, not in buildings. Its a horrible decision, more ultra liberal bunk.