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UofL smoking ban coincides with Great American Smoke Out

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by Amy Stallings

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 8:52 AM

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Thursday is The Great American Smoke Out and as a part of the smoke out, Kentucky’s two largest universities are going smoke free.

Smoking bans are now in place at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky.

One quarter of UofL students light up.  While UK has a ban in place on all tobacco products, UofL has banned smoking on campus except in designated areas. 

In an effort to create a healthier campus, UofL has started the process to become smoke free and the campus will be completely smoke free by November 2010.  

According to the national cancer institute, smoking harms nearly every organ of the body.  And, smoking can cause an abnormally high heart rate and high blood pressure as well as other diseases like cancer. .

Information booths will be set up on campus and free nicotine patches or gum will be given to students and workers who take classes to stop smoking.

Free nicotine patches and quit kits will also be given out at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg, Ind. from 8 to 11 a.m. and Fulton Terrace Community Resource Center in Jeffersonville, Ind. from 9 to 11 a.m.

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chungking said on November 19, 2009 at 11:16 AM

I think I'll buy me some cherry cigars and Marlboros to protest the smoking Nazis.

cantiloper said on November 23, 2009 at 7:05 PM

Despite what you may have been told, outdoor bans have no scientific basis. See: www.wispofsmoke.net/satire.txt for a funny but accurate look at how they create studies to support this nonsense. www.TheTruthIsALie.com shows the lies that “prepare the ground” for acceptance of limited UofL type bans UofL and the "final solution" bans of UK. You’ll be surprised. There's a powerful lobby attacking campuses all over the country with well prepared sound bites and bogus studies. UofGA just "re-released" a month-old study today as another "new study" supposedly showing elevated cotinine readings from outdoor smoke. But anyone taking the time to analyze it would find that even in smokiest area in the "smoking pens" outside bars, it would take literally 18,000 hours on the busiest nights to "smoke" a single cigarette's worth of smoke. Of course that's not how they spun the story for smokeout day. Michael J. McFadden Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains"