Chicago City Colleges ban ALL tobacco usage from anyone on campuses‎

‎>>>>As we reinvent our institution to ensure students are prepared to compete for the jobs of the future, we must also provide a learning environment that protects their future health and well-being<<<<

ME: I love this quote! How the Fck is bannin bacco gonna protect students' health? Dose students can still get killed as even innocent ppl outside in the streets (even as nonsmokers). Smokin bans have no effect on Chi's hi crime rate.  If you really wanna protect the students' health, banning firearms would certainly help.  Because crime can have a serious effect on a victim's health.  A MUCH MORE serious effect I might add.

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As part of an effort to promote healthy lifestyles among students, faculty and staff, the City Colleges of Chicago Board of Trustees passed a 100 percent tobacco-free campus policy today, becoming the largest higher education institution in Chicago to do so.  The policy, which will take effect March 1, 2012, prohibits tobacco use (including cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products) on all college property, impacting more than 120,000 students and 5,800 faculty and staff as well as visitors.

“This is an important step towards ensuring that our students have healthy and safe environments to live, learn, play and succeed,” said Mayor Emanuel. “Promoting healthy environments is crucial to securing a high-quality of life for Chicagoans in every neighborhood, supporting a vibrant economy, and keeping our city on the cutting edge.”

The policy will cover City Colleges’ seven colleges, seven satellite locations and the district office. City Colleges is offering “Courage to Quit” smoking cessation classes and other resources to assist students, faculty and staff at each college who want to quit smoking or stop using other tobacco products. These resources will be available at new college Wellness Centers.

“As we reinvent our institution to ensure students are prepared to compete for the jobs of the future, we must also provide a learning environment that protects their future health and well-being. The tobacco-free policy helps create a college environment that promotes a healthy lifestyle among our faculty, staff and students, and benefits the entire City Colleges community,” said Chancellor Hyman.
 
 “This policy is critical in saving lives, and is an important step in implementing the City’s public health agenda, Healthy Chicago,” said Dr. Bechara Choucair, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health. “College students use tobacco at a higher rate than the average of adults across the nation and we applaud City Colleges of Chicago for its bold move to help reduce tobacco use and decrease exposure to secondhand smoke.”

Eversmoke seems to be getting more popular in the e-cig industry

I see 3 people have bought from EVERSMOKE.COM e-cig shop through the shop's links on my blog.  And the links haven't been on here for a full month yet.

I see for myself Eversmoke is an e-cig that is gaining more popularity.  Since it looks just like a real cigarette.

There IS a post on my blog which explains in-depth details on the Eversmoke e-cig.   You may have to scroll down to the Jan 3 2012 blog post to view it.

E-cigs are "Electronic cigarettes."  These cigs make a good alternative to smoking in indoor public areas.  An e-cig produces vapor instead of tobacco smoke.  Nor do they smell bad.  If you see someone enjoying an e-cig in a tavern, he/she aint violating any smoking bans.  Since NO SMOKE comes from the e-cig at all.

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The Property Rights Newsletter January 13, 2012 - Issue #646 From the desk of the Director of The Blatantly Obvious: Ban water vapor?! That must include tea, coffee, boiling water, soup, most hot foods, right? Note that no one wants to ban an alternative nicotine delivery system. That would cost Big Pharm money.

ALERT SC: North Myrtle Beach has decided to include E-cigs in their ordinance - heads up to smokers and vapers to protest the upcoming vote, scheduled for January 23rd. People might not be able to distinguish an e-cigarette from a real cigarette in certain situations, which is why the city council has decided to include e-cigarettes in its non-smoking ordinance. "There’s a psychological impact of it," City Councilman Bob Cavanaugh said. "For example, if you’re in a theater and look around and see 10 people with it, it looks like they are smoking. There’s an influence on other people, especially at night when an e-cigarette looks like a cigarette." Cavanaugh said Monday that the council has done an "outstanding" job with the ordinance, but he would like to see whether businesses would make that choice to go smoke free on their own instead of there being a government mandate. "I think that a vast majority of them would make the decision to be smoke free on their own," he said. "I feel uncomfortable doing a mandate on a social issue. I think there should be a mandate to have a sign that says smoking or non-smoking. For one year, let’s try it. If it doesn’t work, we can put in all mandates." Read: Product Reviews. It is your choice to "smoke" anywhere and at any time you want, with no consideration of any smoking bans. This is legal (WATER) vapor, not banned smoke. Take a few puffs and keep from getting a withdrawal headache in any workplace, a hospital, restaurant, bar, airplane, store, church... anywhere! "Nicotine Delivery Systems" have no bans, Big Pharm wants you to buy their patches and gums. Don't give them your money when you can smoke and get the nicotine you want from someone else. Read: More articles about Electronic Cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes on airplanes, KY E-cigarettes, Electronic Cigarettes and the FDA, USA Big Pharm only wants you to use THEIR quit smoking products, Electric cigarette beats pub smoking ban, Turkey E-cig, UK Meets the e-cig, and more. Read: Antis: What to expect, The Cold Sharp Slap Of Reality. World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs.

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Bus Driver tells smokin lady to sit in back

>>>>OC Transpo is investigating and a woman says she feels "harassed" as a smoker after a bus driver allegedly asked her to move to the back of his bus because he didn't like how she smelled.<<<<

(ME: When I read dis, it rang a bell in my head. Somethang very similar to dis happened to Rosa Parks. Cept her driver told her to move to the back cause of her skin color.)

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Who still smokes in the USA? (Chart)

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Source: Who Still Smokes? Smokers in the U.S. Today

Property Rights Newsletter

The Property Rights Newsletter January 6, 2012 - Issue #645 "On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other." - James Madison

Formal request for: Future CDC Study on Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Policies on Bars and Restaurants. By Buckeye Liquor Permit Holders Association. This is an outrage! Our organization has watched as members and friends have depleted their lifelong savings to keep their doors open to their bars, bowling alleys, etc. after Ohio's draconian smoking ban. Some of these small business owners have sold their businesses at a loss while others have lost not only their bars but their homes through bankruptcy. To read that the CDC and CDC Foundation are complicit in covering up these facts is sickening. How is RTI International going to reach any other conclusion than what the CDC has already announced? Now that they know what the CDC expects the finding to be, all they have to do is search until they find numbers they can use to meet the CDC's expectations. We expect a full investigation. From Toxic T-Shirts To Twizzler TV! By Michael J. McFadden. Remember "product placement?" Now we're not just talking about the long tolerated brainwashing of children on Saturday mornings, we're talking about the blatant and often completely out-of-place scripting involving major characters in series like "Fringe" and "Warehouse 13" suddenly offering each other Twizzlers or having prominent bright red/orange Twizzler goodie boxes on office desks in scenes where almost everything else is sort of a bland beige. How much does Twizzler-Caused Obesity cost our Gross National Product? Just how deadly IS Third Hand Twizzler Juice when it's passed on from Evil Candy Chompers to innocent loved ones through fingertips or stains on clothing? From The Mailbag CA: S.B. COUNTY: Hospital smoking ban defeated. The ban would have applied to all sidewalk, streets, parking lots, open spaces and cars on the campus. Supervisor Gary Obit said it was going too far to tell smokers they couldn’t smoke in their own automobiles parked at the hospital. MD: Premium Cigar Group Girds for Maryland Tax Increase Battle. “Maryland voters are sick of increased taxes disguised to obscure government over-spending and they are tired of being told what to do and how to behave. We must stand against higher taxes, bigger and more wasteful government, and the infantilization of America by the ‘people who think they know better’,” said Bill Spann, CEO of the IPCPR. USA: Please sign the petition: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Needs to compensate people & businesses harmed by special interest lobbying. Hundreds of thousands of people in the hospitality industry lose jobs and homes as a result. India: More Ban Damage and lives lost because of smoking bans. Smokers turned off detectors at AMRI hospital. 93 persons suffocated to death in the blaze. Turkey: Turkish Air Force Bombs Cigarette Smugglers! Airstrike on Turkey-Iraq border kills 35 people. "A group of villagers were coming from northern Iraq across the border after 9:30 p.m. Their path was blocked by soldiers and then four planes bombed them," said the official, Yunus Urek of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party. World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs.

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PA: Hospital Quits Hiring Smokers

Smokers in the medical field now have another reason to quit as a Pennsylvania hospital has said it will no longer hire smokers and is introducing nicotine tests in order to enforce the rule.
Geisinger Health System's smoke-free health policy will go into effect on Feb. 1, according to KKTV.com.
"Not only do we want to practice what we preach, but we also want our employees to feel healthy, we want our patients and visitors to feel that they are in a healthy environment. So it's an overall commitment to the well-being of all those people," Geisinger spokeswoman Marcy Marshall told the Vancouver Sun.

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Me:  This should be illegal.   A smoker should have every right to work in a hospital just like a nonsmoking Black person,  a gay nonsmoker, and a nonsmoking lady.  And how is a nic test gonna work when a nonsmoker could have eaten potatoes and tomatpoes?  Those food products contain nic.

Clearing the Air: Why Smoking Bans are bad for businesses

From Audrey Silk of N.Y.C. C.L.A.S.H


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 Pfizer is the manufacturer of a variety of quit smoking aids known as NRTs (nicotine replacement therapies). Smoking bans -- a measure intended, in part, to coerce smokers into quitting -- are such good business for them that they fund drives by anti-smoker groups across the country. If smokers quit they might reach for these NRTs for assistance. Smoking bans shut out the competition over which nicotine product to use.

Here's the article I was interviewed for

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>>>>"I'm probably going to smoke until the day I die.  I'm more concerned about a bullet killing me than smoking."<<<<

I can confirm this is an UN-edited quote from myself. It's the only quote from myself within the article as well.

Details on the Eversmoke E-cigarette

Electronic cigarette: Eversmoke

 

Signature Glowing Orange Crystal Tip

The EverSmoke Electronic Cigarettes have an Orange LED that lights up with each puff and will signal when your electronic cigarette needs to be recharged.

 

Rechargeable Battery

Our EverSmoke electronic cigarette batteries are the longest lasting lithium-polymer batteries on the market.  This proprietary battery is designed for maximum vapor and performance.  Available in a variety of sizes and colors.

 

Built in Atomizer

Unlike many other e-cigarette brands, the EverSmoke atomizer is built into the cartridge to produce maximum vapor and ensure that you get a fresh atomizer with each new EverSmoke electronic cigarette cartridge.

 

Flavor Cartridge

EverSmoke Electronic Cigarette Cartridges are designed and built with our exclusive VaporMax® technology that insures a clean smooth draw that produces maximum vapor.  Exclusive to EverSmoke, you won't find VaporMax® on any other electronic cigarette brand.

 

Silicone Tip

The exclusive silicone tip within the mouth piece is designed to prevent leakage. One hole intake for maximized draw and resistance for an authentic cigarette feel.