{"id":7062,"date":"2012-12-27T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2012-12-27T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T13:25:07","slug":"a-north-country-college-campus-bans-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/12\/27\/a-north-country-college-campus-bans-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"A North Country college campus bans tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This morning we’re airing an interview with John Mills, president of Paul Smiths College, about his move to ban all tobacco products on campus by August 2014.<\/p>\n

Paul Smiths has a reputation for attracting future timber and forest product workers who take pride in their blue collar, rough-around-the-edges vibe.<\/p>\n

For a lot of students, that lifestyle includes a can of chew or a cigarette.\u00a0 But Mills says the culture on his campus was actually inspiring non-smokers to take up the habit.<\/p>\n

“Some of our data indicated we were creating smokers,” according to Mills, “and that really bothered me.”<\/p>\n

Banning a known carcinogen\u00a0 that kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year may seem like a no-brainer.\u00a0 The move drew strong praise from the Adirondack Tobacco Free Network.<\/p>\n

But some students are incensed at their school’s attempt to dictate a legal behavior in their private lives.<\/p>\n

“I mean if you want to smoke, I think they should be able to.\u00a0 They’re paying a lot of money to come here,” said Paul Smiths student Peter Murphy, a non-smoker who thinks his school has gone too far.<\/p>\n

So what do you think?\u00a0 Are Paul Smiths — and the hundreds of other college campuses adopting these rules — defending public health and further reducing nicotine addiction?\u00a0 Or are they meddling in a high-handed way in lives of their student-customers?<\/p>\n

Your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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