Going “Smoke Free”

I imagine some people are wondering why so much effort is being focused on making businesses and schools and universities “Smoke Free.” I imagine is has something to do with creating a healthier environment, but — paranoid as I am — I suspect there is another agenda, too.

It seems likely that the authorities want to make as many places “Smoke Free” as they can, before marijuana is legalized. This, I think, is the real agenda. Limiting places where people can smoke weed is the real reason behind prohibiting people from smoking tobacco.

Ironically, I know of one state university where the ballyhoo over becoming “Smoke Free” has had some unintended consequences. Just as the “Smoke Free” crusade was gearing up, a bunch of students from the Middle East decide they wanted to go to somewhere else — to a school where they wouldn’t be harassed about their use of tobacco. Ultimately the university lost over a million dollars in tuition and room & board that they would otherwise have kept.