среда, 25 июля 2012 г.
7 more plead guilty in Georgia tobacco probe
понедельник, 16 июля 2012 г.
First e-cigarette store in Menomonee Falls to open later this month
A new cigarette shop is opening in Menomonee Falls -- but this one plans on selling electronic smokes. Sometime in the next nine to 10 days, "It Is Vapor" plans to open its doors to tobacco users with a newer type of product -- the e-cigarette, said Jeff Jacobs to Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Wisconsin's Afternoon News, who plans to open the shop with his mother Anne Hooper. Jacobs also owns a similar store by the same name in Oshkosh.
The e-cigarette is an electrical device that simulates the act of tobacco smoking by producing an inhaled vapor bearing the physical sensation and look of inhaled tobacco smoke, without its odor or health risks. This e-cigarette, which made its way into the United States in 2007, is a cheaper and less harmful way to smoke, said Jacobs. "Most people who use these products either stopped smoking recently...or they want a cheaper alternative to smoking," said Jacobs. "Most people who use would be smoking regular cigarettes... if they didn't have this as an option."
While there are around 600 additives in cigarettes, studies show that more than 4,000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette -- and Jacobs argued that taking out the burning of a tobacco cigarette makes the e-cigarette less harmful. A starter kit is about $60, but a refill of nicotine juice is equivalent to paying $6 for 10 packs of cigarettes, and could be a cheaper long term option than paying for traditional cigarettes. While most of the health facts surrounding e-cigarettes aren't known, "they aren't a safer cigarette," said to Donna Winisky, the Director of Public Policy and Communications for the American Lung Association to Wisconsin to Wisconsin's Afternoon News.
Winisky pointed out that e-cigarettes contain carcinogens, including some toxins found in antifreeze. She believes the underlying tactic of the e-cigarette is to get young people interested in smoking, as e-cigarette shops -- including the one Jacobs will open -- has numerous juice flavors including: regular, menthol, vanilla, raspberry, blueberry and other fruit flavors. Winisky also argued there is "no scientific evidence" showing these e-cigarettes help people quit smoking.
She acknowledged there are anecdotal cases that people quit cigarettes or ease off them, such as Erin Moss of Robert, GA who told Newsradio 620 WTMJ, "I was (smoking) up to 3 packs a day; in a month and a half I quit cigarettes completely because of the electronic cigarette." Moss said she still smokes the e-cigarette, but uses smaller doses of nicotine than when she started. Winisky stressed that more research needs to be examine the health risks that come with e-cigarettes and the FDA needs to be more testing.
Dispute over cigarettes leads to stabbing
A 29-year-old man was stabbed in the torso during a dispute with another man over cigarettes at an apartment in the 1300 block of West Second Street on Friday, Merced police reported. Adrian Mendoza was treated at Mercy Medical Center for a wound not considered life-threatening. Police described him as a transient. Phi Dvong, 41, of Merced was booked at the Merced County Jail for investigation of aggravated assault and on outstanding warrants.
Police said Mendoza walked up to the bedroom window of an apartment in the area and demanded three cigarettes from the occupant. Officers said Dvong, who lives there, told Mendoza to leave. According to police, Mendoza went to a nearby apartment where he had been hanging out and Dvong followed him into the other unit where the stabbing occurred. Dvong told police he was tired of people "messing with him."
India’s Tobacco-Free Village
Villages, districts and an entire state have been declared “tobacco-free” in the last two months as part of a drive to eradicate tobacco use in India. Campaigns funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat have stopped the sale of tobacco in some villages and begun imposing heavy fines for smoking or chewing the product. Himachal Pradesh was the first state to be pronounced smoke-free by its chief minister in May, while the government in Haryana has just declared the state is the first to go “hookah bar free” after shutting down more than 60 bars offering hookah, or waterpipes, with nicotine.
But one village in Haryana is way ahead of them, having eschewed tobacco for decades because of local custom and belief. Shankapura has no paan stains on its buildings and there’s not a cigarette butt in sight. “There are no cigarettes,” says local shopkeeper Bhajan Lal Selwal, his straight shiny teeth a testament to a life-long rejection of tobacco. Mr. Lal Selwal says he and his neighbors have never smoked cigarettes or tasted paan, the chewable tobacco favored by about 20% of Indian tobacco users according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey carried out by the World Health Organization. The small silvery packets hanging on the shop wall behind him contain hair-dye and soap powder rather than addictive paan masala sold in stores like his across the country.
Mr. Lal Selwal doesn’t think he loses out financially by not selling tobacco products and believes that he has saved his own health and protected his wallet by not smoking. “Consuming tobacco destroys health and one ends up spending a lot of money to cure the diseases,” he says. The village residents differ about when and why Shankapura became tobacco-free. Suresh Selwal, a 40-year-old lecturer in political science at Kurukshetra University in Haryana, says the non-smoking tradition began in his village during partition in 1947. “In the struggle between Hindus and Muslims in 1947, the founder of our Selwal sub-caste was being chased by Muslims and to protect himself he hid in a tobacco plant,” Mr. Selwal says.
“Since then he promised the tobacco plant: ‘Our caste will protect you like you protected me.’ So no one is using tobacco.” However, the oldest member of the village, Ram Lamba, who says he is 101 and has lived in Shankapura for 90 years, claims the tobacco prohibition began at least as far back as his grandfather’s generation. “Since then no one has been smoking and when you don’t see smoking in your family you don’t do it,” says the centenarian, who claims he and his 84-year-old wife have no health problems. The village is predominantly Sikh, another reason cited by those living there for its tobacco free status.
The tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, forbade smoking and according to Sikh history once told a farmer that he would not bless him unless he stopped growing tobacco. According to the story, the farmer ripped up his tobacco crop and began to grow wheat instead. Paradoxically Shankapura is in one of the top three tobacco-growing states in India. Haryana along with Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka accounted for 84% of the total land area used for growing tobacco in 2008-2009, when India produced 620 million kilograms of the cash crop, according to a report published by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
India clamps down on killer chewing tobacco
Anil Kanade seems almost too stunned to speak about the deadly cancer recently found in his mouth, caused by his addiction to a popular Indian chewing tobacco that doctors say is fuelling an epidemic. Like millions of young Indians, the factory worker was for years hooked on "gutka" -- a cheap, mass-produced mix of tobacco, crushed areca nut and other ingredients that several states are now trying to wipe out. "It gave me a high. It felt nice," Kanade told AFP quietly at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, where he is due to undergo surgery.
The father-of-two, whose swollen cheek hints at his disease, is aged just 35. His brother Datta travelled with him from their village in rural Maharashtra state, where he says children start munching on colourful sachets of gutka, each priced at only one rupee (two US cents), at the age of just 11 or 12. "I'm not sure if the government can ban it or not, but they should," Datta said. Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, on Wednesday became the fourth state this year to outlaw gutka, which campaigning doctors say is targeted at children -- even though Indian law prohibits tobacco sales to those under 18.
They point the finger primarily at gutka for India's 75,000 to 80,000 new cases of oral cancer a year, the highest rate in the world, according to the US-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Bihar states have already banned gutka this year, following the earlier example of Goa, while others including Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, are considering similar action. But they face a struggle -- not only to enforce the law on the streets, but to overcome the powerful lobby of the billion-dollar gutka industry, which is disputing the bans on the grounds they are unlawful. Leading the anti-gutka fight in Mumbai is Kanade's surgeon, Pankaj Chaturvedi, a head and neck cancer specialist. He says half of his mouth cancer patients die within 12 months of diagnosis, while the rest are left severely disabled.
While tobacco has been chewed across the subcontinent for centuries, often in a concoction known as "paan", Chaturvedi said gutka took over in recent decades as a more convenient, ready-made version for modern life. "It comes in a pouch, it doesn't make your tongue and mouth red and it doesn't make an urge for spitting," he said, listing substances found in gutka including lead, arsenic, copper, chromium and nickel. The youngest addict he has treated was a 13-year-old boy, who died of an advanced form of mouth cancer. "Gutka captured both economic strata, the poorest and the richest. They advertised very strategically to capture the entire youth," he said.
An estimated five million Indian children are hooked on tobacco, although specific chewing figures are unclear, while the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in 2010 showed that 206 million Indians aged over 15 were using smokeless forms. The states now shifting such products off the shelves are taking their cue from a ruling by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India in August last year, which said tobacco could not be used in food products. Their moves are hotly contested by the Smokeless Tobacco Federation (India), an association of chewing tobacco businesses, which is launching court petitions to get them overturned. "What they are doing is totally unconstitutional," the group's executive director Sanjay Bechan told AFP. "Tobacco is tobacco.
Food is food," he said, insisting that gutka comes under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act of 2003 and cannot be governed by food safety regulations. Bechan said an end to the smokeless tobacco industry, worth about $2.5 billion, threatened the livelihoods of millions. Chewable products, he added, were being unfairly blamed for tobacco deaths largely caused by smoking. "How can you guarantee if gukta is banned people will not smoke?" For now, complete eradication remains far from imminent. With gutka banned in just small patches of India, officials face an uphill battle to keep the product at bay while it remains legal in most of India's 28 states. "It's a struggle to keep the supplies under control.
The borders are porous, there's no restrictions on trade," said Ashwini Kumar Rai, the Food Safety Commissioner in Madhya Pradesh, where a ban was introduced in April. He said they had since shut down eight gutka manufacturing factories in the state and acted on public tip-offs to seize 10 million rupees ($180,000) worth of supplies, which are no longer sold prominently in shops. "That's something that we have succeeded in completely eliminating. The trade has since gone underground," Rai said. Health workers believe clandestine sales will at least force the price up by five to ten times and make it more difficult for youngsters to purchase. "If children will not have access, then I see a better future," said Chaturvedi.
Police arrest man for tobacco store robbery
A Bloomington man was arrested at about 8 a.m. Sunday for Saturday’s armed robbery of Karton King Discount Tobacco and Liquor Store, located at 2475 S. Walnut St. Pike. The suspect, Scott Afanador, 35, was arrested for allegedly demanding the store clerk empty her cash register. Afanador is being charged with armed robbery, a Class B felony, and criminal recklessness, a Class D felony. No one was injured in the robbery, BPD Sgt. Faron Lake said.
At about 2:56 p.m. Saturday, Afanado allegedly entered the tobacco outlet, displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk. At first, Lake said, the tobacco store employee challenged Afanado, believing the gun he carried was fake. But she proceeded to empty her drawer when Afanado allegedly shot the firearm at the ground.
After obtaining the cash, Afanado allegedly ran out of the store and fled in a blue Chevy Aveo, which was hidden in a wooded area during the altercation. Lake said officers collected evidence, including a 9mm shell casing. Afanado remained at large Saturday evening. Sunday morning, officers searched for the Chevy Aveo.
After identifying a matching vehicle, Lake said a BPD officer performed a traffic stop at the Village Pantry at 275 E. Winslow Road. The driver of the vehicle also matched the description of the robbery suspect, Lake said. Performing a search on the vehicle, the officer discovered a High Point 9mm semi-automatic handgun, matching the shell casing obtained by police as evidence.
NH cigarette tax cut hurt public health
Nicotine is a powerful addiction. Once the habit is formed, it is extremely difficult to quit, even though the benefits of quitting smoking are well-known: decreasing heart attack, stroke, lung disease and smoking-related cancers. In addition to the individual and social cost of tobacco-related illness, diseases associated with smoking are an expensive burden on our health care system. Treatment for these diseases costs nearly $600 million a year in New Hampshire.
During the past decade, as New Hampshire increased cigarette taxes several times, the state’s population of smokers declined somewhat. It remains relatively high among adults, however; at 19 percent, it is the second-highest rate in New England. We have been more successful among young smokers, where smoking rates declined from 25 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2009. The public health strategy to fight tobacco use is two-fold: prevent new smokers and help current smokers reduce or stop smoking.
Both strategies are greatly helped by high prices. For every 10 percent increase in tobacco price, 7 percent fewer youths initiate tobacco use, and 4 percent of adults quit. While New Hampshire’s smoking rates have been heading in the right direction in recent years, aided by rising cigarette prices, what did our current Legislature do? For first time in history, the Legislature decreased the cigarette tax. Legislative leadership promised the economy would benefit if cigarette prices dropped by 10 cents a pack. Our representatives and senators clearly hoped we would sell more cigarettes, which is bad public health policy.
The Legislature’s decision to lower cigarette taxes goes against sound public health policy because it wanted to sell more cigarettes. In some ways, it is fortunate that the Legislature’s economic policy did not lead to more cigarettes being sold. Cigarette companies did not drop the price for retailers and smokers; they simply kept the additional money as extra profits. Smokers continued to buy cigarettes while New Hampshire lost $20 million in revenue. State residents gave a $20 million gift to cigarette companies, money that could have gone to anti-smoking programs, reaping financial benefits for taxpayers many times over.
It is ironic that the state Legislature has been attempting to pass intrusive bills that would dictate to physicians the clinical practice of medicine when, at the same time, they are making it more difficult for physicians and other health professionals to implement time-honored and proven public health strategies such as decreasing tobacco use. Decreasing the tobacco tax was a mistake. It was a $20 million gift to the cigarette makers and dreadful public health policy. We certainly hope the next legislature will remedy this expensive mistake.
четверг, 5 июля 2012 г.
Indonesian zoo aims to stub out orangutan's smoking habit
Zookeepers in Indonesia have been forced to move an orangutan out of visitors' reach after the 15-year-old primate developed a serious smoking habit. Tori learned to smoke 10 years ago by imitating zoo visitors, who would throw their cigarette butts into her open cage. She has been smoking ever since, according to activists. They say that she holds up two fingers to her mouth to insinuate she wants a smoke, and becomes angry and throws things if none are readily available.
Zookeepers at Taru Jurug zoo in Solo have unsuccessfully tried luring the ape away with food and extinguishing the butts with water. Now the zoo – with help from the Borneo-based Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) – plans to move Tori and her partner on to a small island in the zoo's lake by August.
They hope the large trees, rope swings and views over the zoo will make Tori forget about her nicotine fix. Until then, the centre has sent extra volunteers to guard the cage and will install mesh netting to prevent visitors from throwing in their butts. Tori may be Indonesia's most famous smoking orangutan, but she is not the only one. Tori's parents were also smokers and many more of Indonesia's zoo-based orangutans are thought to be hooked on the habit, says Hardi Baktiantoro of COP. The creatures' 97% genetic similarity to humans means that they will often mimic and take on behaviours similar to ours – sometimes to their detriment.
"It is very common in Indonesian zoos for people to throw cigarettes or food [at animals] even though there are signs to not feed or give cigarettes," says Baktiantoro. "It happens all the time. [In Tori's case], people will throw cigarettes in, watch her smoke, start laughing and take pictures." So far, Tori's partner Didik – who is new to the zoo – has not yet taken up smoking, preferring instead to stamp out butts whenever they are thrown into the cage that he and Tori share. But activists worry that he could soon succumb to the habit, as nearly 70% of Indonesian men over the age of 20 are smokers, and zookeepers have had difficulty educating and preventing visitors from doing what they will.
Indonesia's zoos have come under fire for their appalling conditions – where visitors, not just zookeepers, are sometimes to blame. It was reported two years ago that, at Surabaya zoo in East Java, about 25 of its 4,000 animals were dying prematurely every month. This included a Sumatran tiger and an African lion. In March this year, a 30-year-old giraffe was found dead at the zoo with an 18kg (39.7lb) ball of plastic in its stomach, after years of eating litter thrown into its pen by visitors.
Minister assures tobacco growers’ rights protection
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Agriculture, Arbab Muhammad Ayub Jan said rights of tobacco growers would be protected and provincial government would support all the stake holders in case any injustice was done to them.
Talking to a delegation of Tobacco Growers Coordination Council, he said that any biasness against the tobacco farmers would not be accepted and in case problems of stake holders were not resolved by Ministry of Trade, he would participate in their protest against concerned authorities. The delegation was led Azam Khan while Secretary Agriculture, Afsar Khan, Director General Agriculture Research and officials of concerned authorities were present on the occasion.
The best tobacco for cheap cigarettes here
Tobacco takes beating [The Wilson Daily Times, N.C.]
The more time Art Bradley spends riding around Edgecombe County, the more crops he find that were either destroyed or damaged during Sunday's storm. "It is pretty severe in places," said Bradley, who is director of the Edgecombe County Cooperative Extension Service. As of Tuesday morning, Bradley estimated roughly 600 acres of tobacco in Edgecombe County were destroyed by the storm, another 1,200 acres of tobacco was damaged by wind or hail and another 600 acres of tobacco was moderately damaged meaning farmers are trying to stand the stalks back up in the field.
The tobacco that was destroyed was destroyed by both wind and hail. Driving through Edgecombe County, it's easy to spot the tobacco that took a beating. Hail left multiple, large holes behind in leaves. In some fields it looks like someone took their hands and pushed the leaves on about one-third of the stalk downward snapping their stems, leaving the leaves dangling from the stalk.
"Tobacco took the brunt of it from a crops standpoint," Bradley said. Bradley said he's not sure about meteorological terms but he knows the destruction in the area from Sharpsburg to Pinetops and around Bulluck Elementary School back to the Wilson County line experienced damage "as bad as any hurricane we've had in this area." Bradley said trees are down, roofs are off houses, a barn fell and killed two cows and roofs were partially blown off two chicken houses.
"We had a wide swath of destruction through that area," he said. Crops were damaged at varying levels outside of Tarboro and in the northern part of Edgecombe County near Leggett. Bradley said most of the tobacco affected by the storm had been topped already. "We don't have a whole lot harvested yet," he said. The tobacco up above Tarboro was less mature and still had blooms in it. But Bradley said hail broke stalks there in some instances. There was scattered hail damage to tobacco across Wilson County, according to Norman Harrell, Wilson County agriculture extension agent.
Foreign demand ignites US tobacco profits
Cigarette-smoking has dropped dramatically in the Western world, thanks to decades of health studies, lawsuits and anti-tobacco campaigns. In Africa and Asia, however, smoking is still widespread and even growing in popularity.
Such foreign demand is helping to keep tobacco farms in the American Heartland as profitable as ever. Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Georgetown, Kentucky.
Absolute ban on smoking a long shot for Kansas universities
Jessica Bock, a research associate from Germany at the National Institute for Aviation Research, takes many of her smoking breaks at a designated smoking area near NIAR’s building, on the Wichita State University campus. If Bock worked at one of several universities across the nation that are enacting or discussing total bans on tobacco use, she might have to leave campus in order to smoke. California’s state system will ban all tobacco use in 2013. A ban on use and advertising at the City University of New York system goes into effect in September, and the University of Missouri-Columbia is going smoke-free in 2014.
Ohio higher education officials plan a vote this month urging all public campuses to ban tobacco use. The Kansas Board of Regents, which governs the state’s six public universities, introduced a policy in 2010 that bans tobacco sales and distribution on campuses. But it has not banned smoking itself. “We have nothing on use,” said Vanessa Lamoreaux, assistant director of communications for the Board of Regents. “Decisions are left up to each individual campus.” WSU follows the Kansas Clean Indoor Air Act standards by offering employees a smoke-free workplace, said Ted Ayres, vice president and general counsel at the university.
That means that smoking, including the use of electronic cigarettes, is prohibited in all campus buildings and also within 10 feet of any doorway, open window or air intake that leads into a building, facility or stadium. Other Kansas universities – both public and private – follow the same act, which basically regulates smoking inside and around buildings but not out in the open air, which is the object of a total smoking ban. “We are concerned for the safety of all our students,” said Michael Austin, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Newman University, a private university in Wichita.
“We try to make sure that the students who smoke don’t affect the health of the students who don’t smoke, but right now we are not considering a tobacco ban on campus.” Friends University, another private Wichita college, restricts smoking to a few designated outdoor areas and has no plans to change the policy, said university spokeswoman Kate Bosserman. A total ban is not under discussion at the University of Kansas either, said Jill Jess, director of the KU News Service. According to the surgeon general’s report for 2012, tobacco use among people ages 18 to 25 remains at high proportions nationwide. About a quarter to a third of college students smoke, studies have found. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/07/03/2397627/absolute-ban-on-smoking-a-long.html#storylink=cpy
Big Ban on Campus: U.S. Colleges Move to Bar Tobacco
As a political science major at Ohio State University, Ida Seitter says, she lit up many a cigarette to help her through the stress of exam season. Right or wrong, they were her security blanket as she toiled through college. Seitter, now 26, was old enough by then to make her own decisions, she says. She opposes efforts by policymakers in Ohio, New York, California and other states to impose bans on tobacco use not just in buildings at public colleges, but also anywhere on the campus – even in the open air. “Just back away from me a little bit. I won’t blow it in your face and I’ll try not to be rude,” Seitter says. “At the same time, I think it’s a little discriminatory for a practice that is considered legal.”
Bans on use, advertising and sales of tobacco in all its forms are being enacted or considered at perhaps half of campuses nationwide, sometimes over the objections of student smokers, staff and faculty. The movement is driven by mounting evidence of the health risks of secondhand smoke, the reduced costs of smoke-free dorms and a drive to minimize enticements to smoke at a critical age for forming lifelong habits. California’s state system will begin to bar tobacco use in 2013. A ban on use and advertising at the City University of New York system goes into effect in September, and the University of Missouri at Columbia is going smoke-free in 2014.
Ohio higher education officials plan a vote next month urging all public campuses to ban tobacco use. That includes Ohio State, one of the nation’s largest universities, which currently bans only indoor smoking. According to the surgeon general’s report for 2012, tobacco use among people ages 18 to 25 remains at epidemic proportions nationwide. The review found 90% of smokers started by age 18, and 99% by age 26. About a quarter to a third of college students smoke, studies have found. The study found the U.S. would have 3 million fewer young smokers if success in reducing youth smoking by state tobacco-cessation programs from 1997 to 2003 had been sustained. Many of the programs have been hit by budget cuts.
Health and education officials, anti-smoking groups and a generation of students who grew up smoke-free are increasingly united on the issue, says Bronson Frick, associate director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights. “There are many reasons why a college or university may choose to pursue this type of policy, whether secondhand smoke, dorm fires or other issues,” he says. “They are also questioning what the role of tobacco is in this academic setting, where we’re supposed to be standing for truth and training the next generation of leaders.” According to data kept by the nonsmokers group, campus tobacco bans have risen from virtually zero a decade ago to 711 today. That includes both four-year and two-year institutions, both public and private.
One of the first campuses to ban tobacco was Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, Mo., which endorsed the move in 1999 and put it in place four years later. The school also established a research center that works with other colleges and hospitals pursuing similar moves, now known as the National Center for Tobacco Policy. Ty Patterson, the center’s director, says Ozarks quickly realized that its previous policy of allowing smoking in designated outdoor areas was impractical and couldn’t be properly enforced. Forbidding all tobacco use was deemed to be more effective than simply saying no to cigarette smoke, Patterson says.
“When you go smoke-free, you drive smokers to use smokeless tobacco, which is more addictive,” he says. Cigarette-size cigars containing candy and fruit flavorings, dissolvable strips and lozenges are among the smokeless tobacco products being targeted to youths, according to the surgeon general. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says studies show many smokers mix and match such products with cigarettes as they move from smoking to nonsmoking venues. Compliance with tobacco bans is generally voluntary, and violations come with few, if any, real penalties. Repeat offenders are sometimes subjected to university disciplinary policies, which vary by school.
While precise statistics on the number of campuses curtailing tobacco are elusive, Patterson estimates that one-third to one-half of all higher education institutions have either made the move or are considering it. Smoking rights advocate Audrey Silk, founder of New York Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, says any outdoor ban — whether for a campus, beach or public park — is an attack on the rights of one segment of the population. “This isn’t a health issue anymore. It’s a moral issue,” she says. “There’s absolutely zero reason for a smoking ban outdoors. They use it as a tool. Harm from smoke outdoors is an excuse to frustrate smokers into quitting because they can’t find a place to light up.” Silk says it’s not the place of schools to enforce health issues. “Schools are a business,” she says. “Who assigned them the role of behavior modification? It’s their responsibility to educate. What they’re doing is indoctrinating.”
Tobacco companies have also questioned the role of universities to take such steps. With limited lobbying power at the college level, they have pursued legislation in some states to pre-empt tobacco-control decisions from occurring at any but the state level. A spokesman for Philip Morris USA Inc., the nation’s largest tobacco company, deferred comment to the company website, which states that some smoking restrictions are justified but that all-out bans “go too far.” “Smoking should be permitted outdoors except in very particular circumstances, such as outdoor areas primarily designed for children,” it states.
Seitter, who now works as development coordinator for the Columbus Board of Realtors, says budding college smokers often took up the habit after-hours, at venues such as bars that campus tobacco bans don’t reach. “You find a lot of people start drinking at that age, and many people who don’t consider themselves smokers, they smoke when they drink,” she says. “I would think that atmosphere has more of an effect than somebody smoking on the corner.” Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/29/big-ban-on-campus-u-s-colleges-move-toward-barring-all-tobacco/#ixzz1zk9PmXsY
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