It's lights out as UCLA enacts tobacco ban on Earth Day

[Lionel Mandrake]

Source: Los Angeles Times

UCLA is the first school in the UC system to implement the ban, following a call by President Mark G. Yudof for all 10 UC campuses to go smoke-free by 2014.

"We're very proud we're the first," UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block said. The Westwood campus and its students "are setting an example."

The Earth Day launch date was especially significant because "in order to take care of the Earth, we must take care of ourselves," Block said.

More than 1,000 colleges and universities have adopted tobacco- or smoke-free policies, according to the university. The ban includes the use of smokeless tobacco and unregulated nicotine products in indoor and outdoor spaces. It will also prohibit the sale and advertising of tobacco products.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-ucla-smoking-20130423,0,4072280.story

[former9thward]

1. I am sure it will be as effective as their ban on marijuana.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. What is an "unregulated nicotine products"? I wonder.

Originally, this was all about 2nd hand smoke, so smokers were relagated to outdoors.
Now I notice it seems to be about nicotine in any form including whatever "unregulated nicotine products" are.
So does that mean people cannot use E-cigarettes on campus?

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. Good question.

I have no idea what "unregulated nicotine products" means.

The story is also about cigarette butts littering the campus.

My guess is that E-cigarettes are prohibited.

[onehandle]

7. It's a common myth that e-cigarettes are allowed where regular ones are not.

Due to the Chinese manufacturers false marketing.

Wishful thinking by the users as well.

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. I use them in "no smoking" zones on a regular basis, myth or not.

Especially since there is no smoke.

I have no idea what wishful thinking you're talking about.

[msongs]

9. they are totally toxic to bystanders - poisoning your neighbors is not nice nt

[Capt. Obvious]

11. You have a homing device for e-cigs

[olddots]

12. if you want people to not smoke stop being a condescending oaf .

As a smoker for 43 years your bullshit attitude kept me smoking for the last 10 years of that rotten habbit.....

critical thinking starts with you .....I mean it you are not stopping anyone from smoking ---this isn't liberties this is about trying to faze out a product that America was built on that is addictive. go ahead ignore me but give the remaining smokers a chance to "get clean "

without feeling like a bad person .

[LanternWaste]

13. As toxic as is perfume and cologne. A much greater "travesty" conveniently ignored.

As toxic as is perfume and cologne. A much greater "travesty" conveniently ignored.

Good luck!

[Poll_Blind]

3. As a smoker, I applaud this. The nearby University of Oregon has also...

...gone tobacco-free and it's one hell of a pisser because there are few things I enjoy more than walking around that giant arboretum, burning my calves off going up the hill at the pioneer cemetary, making girls half my age unconsciously play with their hair as I walk by, and then sitting down on a bench underneath a giant (take your pick) tree and gently nursing a Pall Mall.

But, you know, things change. And in this case, for the better. Though, like I said, it inconveniences me, it's for a good cause- both theirs and mine.

PB

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. Thank you.

Your enlightened post shows that this is not merely a struggle between smokers and non-smokers.

[Ratty]

10. Yeah, me too.

We're going smokeless in January. Good excuse to quit.

[busterbrown]

4. Jesus Christ , just what the libertarians warned us about..

No more freedom... Next time I walk through the Westwood Campus I’ll be thinking how
much I miss the butts and smoke...