Smoking ban at American University will now cover outdoors, too
At least two other local schools have implemented smoking bans this summer: the University of Maryland at College Park and George Washington University. Nationwide, the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation estimates that nearly 1,200 college and university campuses have gone smoke-free. Montgomery College and Towson University were among the leaders of the movement in Maryland.
For many years, AU had banned smoking indoors and within 25 feet of building entrances. But university officials, prodded by student leaders who oppose smoking, decided last year that those limits were not enough. Now the ban will cover outdoor areas as well.
Three small spots on campus have been set aside for smokers, but just through Dec. 23, when those havens will disappear, too, and smokers will be forced to leave campus to have a cigarette or cigar. In practical terms, that may push many smokers onto the public sidewalks along Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues.
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James Manning, 19, an undergraduate, sat with his laptop on a shaded bench on the Main Quad, enjoying the unusually crisp late-summer air. He said he was glad that the air was guaranteed to be smoke-free. “I used to really struggle with asthma as a kid,” Manning said. Smoking, he said, is “terrible for your lungs, smells terrible and is unsanitary, in my opinion.” In previous years, Manning said, he was sometimes forced to endure clouds of smoke outside his dormitory’s entrance. “It’s a pretty big nuisance.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/american-university-broadens-smoking-ban-to-outdoors/2013/08/15/754d182a-05de-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html
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Or is it just smokers. 
after a couple billion people are gone we can spread out far enough where smokey won't get to you...
Does pot smoke piss you off too? 
No, pot smoke doesn't piss me off, for the simple fact that I never encounter it in public places to the same degree as cigarette smoke. And, unlike our cigarette-butt-littered landscape, I never see joint-roaches all over the ground.
By and large, marijuana users seem to be a more considerate demographic than tobacco users anyway... 
And welcome to DU. 
and their high-carbon, dry-leaf-burning practice for making crackled-glaze Raku ware. I mean, that nasty smoke goes everywhere and in huge plumes!
We can go after the welders and brazers next 
Lets start a list. 
we need to add those New Agers that insist on burning their Nag Champa incense and using essential oils on everything! 
I dare you. 
They are quite nice. I have some (can't remember the varieties now) that I burn in a bowl of ash to both collect what falls and hold the stick up
We need to go after the physics departments on campuses, too, what with all that high-energy plasma causing all that ozone pollution. Not to mention what they do for fun with LOX and campfire grills...
Im definitely going to have to get my hands on some of that. Thanks for the tip!
Oh... campfire grills? Im glad you brought that up. Sometimes my neighbors grill smoke makes it way into my yard.
Just who the hell gives them permission to smoke-up MY air? Thats it. Time to take this ban the smokers thing all the way. We need a zero tolerance policy on grilling outside. Wont someone think of the children?Especially those for cooking wood-fired pizza and artisan breads
And candles. Do you know what those damn things are made of? And the STINK of some of 'em! Ugh. Gross candle-burners.
<---- what a loser.
Lets just ban fire! Smoke pollution problem solved. I must alert the peeps at Nobel so they can give me my prize.
The Perfect Solution!
They're just making the event that much hotter and adding to global warming, if mostly not more than a few feet from the ground
and we never smell any of that, despite the millions and millions of them in the outdoors. Why? A single word that gets dismissed all too often in discussions like this: dilution. The atmosphere is huge, and thus, so is the outdoors. Separate the smokers a hundred feet or more from the doorways and walkways, and most people will never know they are there.
Better yet, give them a nice water-wall fountain in a half or partial circle around their smoking area. The negative ions and higher humidity will cut down the smoke and odors immensely while giving them a tranquil place to smoke
You equate this with bullying? Really? Sorry not playing Drale but GO CUBS!
I did think comparing smokers to those with bad breath was like comparing a candle to a forest fire.
You must be a real expert on addition. 
Didn't know you condoned blocking entry into a public building by smokers gauntlet.
There are permanent sandbags along the fire exit by the old computer lab that routinely floods when it rains. The terrain of badly leaking old buildings means doorways are usually filled with standing watew and cigarette butts. Whidbey Island does not get the same level of rain as the south sound which is hemmed in by two mountain ranges.
My muddy shoes do not exaggerate nor do my wet toes. The dozen broken umbrellas sitting in my office do not exaggerate either. Whidbey Island! Average 31 inches. Pfft A desert oasis compared to here.
Although, Whatsamatta U has a nice ring to it as well
