Comments on: UMF plans tobacco ban, following UMaine’s lead

By: Ben Hutchins

Ben Hutchins — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:44:00 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see whether the impending “enforcement” amounts to anything. The voluntary phase has certainly accomplished sod-all.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:28:00 +0000

It must be terrible to have such a sensitivity to smells. Hopefully, posts like yours will make people more aware. Good luck.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:01:00 +0000

The. reason you may not have noticed is
because you consumed them too. A lot of sinus
suffers either smell nothing or things you
really don’t want to know about. I like going
to watch basketball and wrestling but between
the perfume, old food smells and BO, its
too much to stand. People get upset
when you throw up on the 5 gallons of perfume
they doused themselves. Which by the way
is very flamable. In case that will help stop people
from wearing it in public.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:38:00 +0000

If your habit did not make innocent non-participants sick, there would be no issue. I personally don’t care what happens to your lungs. That’s your business. Everytime I have asked a smoker to move, I have been met with hostility. No one is outlawing cigarettes. Feel free to smoke all you want, just not around other people.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:35:00 +0000

I kind of agree with you. I think the perfume issue is right on. I personally do not wear scented products out of respect for others. The cereal/bread/vegetarian thing I’ve never noticed, but if you say so.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:48:00 +0000

Same to be said for people cover themselves with toxic
chemical waste called scented dedorant and perfume.
Anyone with that allergy can’t even go to
Work , shopping, out to eat even the Dr or hospital.
So what to those people?
All you people know you smell like dead rotting
flesh who eat meat and your pores leach stale
alcohol for 2 days after drinking.and smell all day
like sour milk after that bowl of cereal for
breakfast and bread eaters smell like fermenting
yeast and lastly vegetarians ell like molding
grass. I’m other words everyone stinks of something.
Please wear your toxic chemical waste at home
and damage your skin, lungs and sinus’s of your
own family, your making my family sick we can’t even
food shopping without someone needing to go
to a doctor afterwards.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:29:00 +0000

Yes, enforcement is the most difficult part. Our hospital has a smoke-free campus, with signs posted everywhere. Still, cigarette butts litter the parking lot and entryway areas. I just don’t get it. Are cigarettes so addictive that smokers ignor posted policies banning them from smoking? Smokers are buttheads!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:21:00 +0000

You would love this ban if you or a family member were allergic to cigarette smoke. Asthmatic children are also seriously effected by second-hand tobacco smoke. I see no reason why a smoker cannot fend off the urge long enough to be in an area where there are no other people present. If it weren’t for the offending second-hand smoke, I wouldn’t care, their habit would be harmless. But since the spew from their habit is a health threat to many people in our society, they should smoke in private.

By: Jim Fields

Jim Fields — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:12:00 +0000

Fascists. If someone has a problem with me smoking they can ask me to move. I try to avoid smoking in people’s faces anyway. Stop trying to control people’s behavior through coercion; IT IS UNETHICAL.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:34:00 +0000

Im not even a smoker and I have never liked this ban