I've never seen SCCC security enforce that rule. They'll leave you a nasty note if you lock your bike to a railing, but they'll ignore you if you smoke.

Shit, SCCC used to have smoking balconies in the building. I think those went away like a year ago.

there's 2 wars going on, but an unfair smoking zone will bring the kids out to protest.

Look at the wording- if it read "Please don't smoke within 50 feet of the building, we thank you for your cooperation" I would understand... but as it stands now, they're trying to take authority in an unenforceable manner. For that alone I'd fight against it.

But trying to enforce a 50' rule is totally stupid. In fact, it is counter productive. Since it exceeds the actual law, it only serves to confuse people, and they can't enforce it. They simply open themselves up to ridicule (like here on Slog).

Lame, lame, lame.

People other than me should stage an elaborate protest/boycott!!!

Try driving a two-wheeled vehicle in traffic for a while, and then tell me which is more hazardous to someone's lungs.

Universities and colleges have their own rules, in general. State universities aren't considered subject to municipal and county ordinance, just as army bases aren't subject to state ordinance, and if the particular college or university has stricter regulations under it's charter, deal with it - or move to a state that loves to smoke.

Virginia is for smokers. Don't like it here - move there. And STFU.

This is a minor issue, personally. I don’t smoke and I’m asthmatic, so I relate strongly to the anti-smoking sentiment. But there’s something offensive about an institution—a public institution, no less—telling you can’t do something perfectly legal on public property. For example, the college could also post a sign that reads, “No holding hands for one mile!” Then officials could ask hand-holders to take their hand holding a mile away. That would be the college’s First Amendment right, albeit an obvious expression of opinion. The problem is that these signs suggest—to folks such as Richard—that this is the decree of law.

Bunch of whining pussy who have bought a line of shit.

Just wait till the nanny state come for your Jaeger, Poppers, and Astroglide...

Ecce, second had smoke does cause lung cancer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18191495?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

in up to 1.6% of cases:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16843042?ordinalpos=7&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

That's about 3100 people who get lung cancer contributed to second hand smoke a year in America. And about 2500 of those people die a year.

3000? So that is the magic number at which private property rights and individual liberties are rendered irrelevant?

What the hell does "contributed" mean? Either it is or it isn't. How is that determined.

Oh, and sorry. I should be able to smoke in a tobacco shop, a bar that allows for smoking, or any business where the BUSINESS OWNER allows for it. 3000 people isn't a lot. I suspect that 3000 people a year die from Slinky accidents, drinking paint, etc... than second hand smoke. To listen to the smoke nazi's, you would think it was hundreds of thousands of people that die every year from second hand smoke.

You are more likely to die from cancer caused by the belching diesel engines that power the freighter in the port and locomotives.

Get a grip.

You just enjoy telling people what they can and can't do with their property and bodies. Using insignificant numbers of deaths that are at best tangentially related is no different than wacko's who want to outlaw gay marriage because it will destroy their families.

whats next, you gonna outlaw bad language?

And this is coming from someone who worked in a lung cancer clinical research department who would take smoke breaks by the dumpster and rat traps! I'm not even making moral/ethical judgements, it's just that second hand smoke causing heart and lung disease has been definitively proven. How you deal with that knowledge is up to you.

No it hasn't...it is nothing more than accepted and widely believed. Many of the "studies" have been been proved out to be rubbish.

But hey, why let facts get in your way. As long as everyone believes it, then it must be true.

Meanwhile, take pride is squashing other peoples rights.

Thanks Ecce!

Johnny