Wow, make OSU healthy. Er.
This is funny. As someone who spent seven lovely years at OSU in undergrad and grad (remembering when the O’Colly office was a smoking facility, to say nothing of the smoking room in the SU Food Court — and this was the ’90s, not the ’50s), I find it sad that the de-evolution of personal rights and personal responsibility for adults has sunk so low on what is advertised as a college campus. That’s nice of the university to say that handcuffing and beatings are off the table — at least for now. I visit campus regularly and will continue to smoke when and where I want because some tickets are just worth paying.
However, when I feel the need to take the high-road, my bosom is always warmed by the fact that the earliest and most famous lifestyle-imposing non-smoker and vegan was Adolf Hitler. Am I comparing OSU’s spineless SGA, Faculty Council, four members of the Ed Board and so forth to Adolf Hitler? Absolutely — assuming these lifestyle-Brownshirts haven’t started banning certain books on campus as well, young Adolf had much to say about the necessity of a healthy People in his most infamous work.
The first half of “Mein Kampf” acts as a blueprint for what these imbeciles have not only imposed but also enacted. They have even made it more unintentionally humorous and appropriate by allowing “foreign students” to be corralled in easily located smoking facilities.
Harpies, the lot of you. Dead relatives and seconds of discomfort are fairly lame excuses for banning a substance from your presence that is legal in all 50 states. I assume everyone for this will submit to drug tests and personal computer scans to show how law-abiding, healthy and responsible they really are.
I’m glad the Ed Board actually debated this and aired two sides — it just saddens me that only three of seven future journalists stood on the side of individual responsibility, self-determination and the right to be left the hell alone. To this trio, I was happy to see that you actually grounded your rhetoric in something more than Web links, dead relatives and personal histrionics.
What a sad day for OSU — but hey, the air will be .0000000000000001 percent cleaner come July, to say nothing of the ease of ambulation for asthmatics who will no longer have to avoid the .000000004 percent of campus they once had to avoid, to say nothing of the 14-17 seconds of discomfort they had to endure each day, second-handily inhaling that wisp of Marlboro Light exhaled by that so-not-with-it Malawian student.
Note to greeks: You’re next.
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Sorry, Brooks, but I think you’re wrong on this one.
Smoking is the one thing other people can do to themselves that affects my health.
When you overeat, it’s your body that suffers, not mine. When you take drugs, it’s your body that suffers, not mine. When you drink, it’s your liver that shrivels, not mine. (Of course, when you drink and drive, then you do take on my health, but that’s already illegal and I don’t see anyone writing opinions suggesting we change that law . . . )
Nope, a smoke-free campus IS the right thing to do. It’s the thing the MAJORITY want. And, with the vote tallies reported, it’s the DEMOCRATIC thing to do.
Now, we’ll wait and see what you have to say about greeks (you were a greek, weren’t you . . . so you’ll be speaking with some authority, right?).
Ok, I’ll keep this brief, and to the point. By your logic, while you’re out smoking on campus, someone could punch you in the crotch for their own enjoyment, and it would be acceptable, because all you have to put up with is a few seconds of discomfort. Reasonable?
Don’t even try to minimize it. Secondhand smoke is just as bad (and it’s not even filtered), and it’s not my choice to smoke. You’re causing health problems for all those around you with your blatant disregard for others and your selfish need to “have a smoke.” So here it is, with what I believe is fairly pointed words: fuck your lung cancer, and fuck your smoking. I don’t deserve the consequences of your actions.
*are fairly pointed words, pardon.
The majority, Bruce? The understanding I have is that most of the non-smoking population doesn’t care in the first place, and I don’t specifically remember voting about the issue. Hmm, maybe I missed the memo.