Jindal signs ban on smoking | #Louisiana

by Trey Labat

While the 2014 school year will ring in a new class of freshman, that fall semester will also bring about new regulations that will affect smokers on campus.

On June 10, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed Senate Bill 36, which mandates all public post-secondary education institutions must develop strict non-smoking policies by August 1, 2014.

The bill was first introduced into the State Senate on April 8, when it was revised, and even then, it received vast majority support in a 31-3 vote.

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The political easy target punching bag of both parties.  Those evil smokers and dippers.  Yay tolerance!

You know there used to be ashtrays at business doors for people to put their cigarette butts.  Sure some folks still wouldn’t use them, but now more cigarette butts end up in the parking lots and streets because some people throw it on the ground just to make the point.  If the butt it isn’t out completely, it becomes a fire waiting to happen.  At least in an ashtray you are minimizing the risk.  I think the majority of smokers used them.

I think most people use trash cans if available rather than litter.  It is a minority of people who litter, but some people who normally wouldn’t litter will toss things out in a parking lot because there is no trash can.  They know some poor employee will have to come out and pick it up.   They justify it for themselves thinking ‘If there had been a trash can I would not have littered, and it gives the employees something to do.  Besides if is going to be picked up, is it really littering?’

Though, these are the  type of people that would have a fit if you brought their trash back to them and dropped it off in their parking lot,  or the driveway of their home.

In 2005 there was a proposed tax on cigarettes to fund teacher pay raises.  They add taxes to encourage people to quit too, so they claim.  All the while knowing that most smokers aren’t going to quit.  Why else would you use a cigarette tax to fun teacher pay raises?  Because you know it’s guaranteed money.

If everybody quit smoking what would they propose taxing then to make up the lost revenue?  Alcohol?  You notice it is seldom proposed to raise taxes on alcohol to fund projects or encourage people to quit drinking.

It’s the majority attacking the minority when it comes to smoking.

Cenla Focus Volume 8 Issue 3 May/June 2005