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Freedom fighters can be seen sticking it to the man outside Butler every day and night.
Bill O’Reilly can have his war on Christmas, but here at Columbia a long-smoldering war has been newly stoked —the war on smoking. For millennia, men, and then most recently women, had lounged inside the confines of Butler Library relaxedly puffing away towards a state of greater tasty tobacco-scented peacefulness and pseudo-philosophical coolness. First they kicked them out of buildings, and then they pushed them away from entrances. Now, in the latest affront to man’s communion with and combustion of nature, the university has placed multiple eyesores in front of Butler. To add insult to injury, they even took away what were probably the most used ash trays on campus. The average health-conscious student has gained nothing from what will undoubtedly be ineffective signage, and the university has gained further plausible deniability.
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@Anonymous Just stuff John Gutfriend’s morning cigar up Broombungler’s congestion pricing
@Anonymous Blame Mayor Broombungler, the engineer who is clueless about human nature.
@people who complain about smoking should i call the
WAAAAAMBULANCE???????
fuckers, chill out.
@Van Owen Dirty Hipsters…
@Anonymous Get rid of all smoking on campus!
@Anonymous perhaps the donuts are marked up as a disincentive to eating them….
@that tag has some finer contours. If we look at the article it’s used for, we might surmise that the tagger is drawing a comparison between two things of exorbitant cost–and suggesting which one wins in the marked-up society.
Donuts are marked up as a disincentive to eating donuts, indeed! But if they were cheaper, see, the cigarette industry might find itself threatened. Who’ll buy a pack for a price that can nab you many, many highly-caloric, sugar-infused energy rings (especially when you’re looking to take on that third all-nighter and not flame out for lack of sustenance)? Not I, said the goat!
@Anonymous Dunkin Donuts charges 89 cents a donut. Where the disincentive at??
@Anonymous Honestly, this is bullshit. No matter which side you’re on, that’s such a piece of shit sign. If you’re going to have policies, then fucking enforce them with shit better than 8th grade CAD projects.
@Great job! Finally keeping up with Barnard I see :)
@Anonymous don’t start…
@hey guys, whats the deal with Barnard vs. Columbia, i forgot can someone remind me?
@Anonymous This has been the rule for quite some time. Now it looks like they’re finally enforcing it in front of Butler.
Great news I say. I’m sick of inhaling a coal mine every time I walk to class.
@anon the person (of whatever gender, or in-between, or whateverjustleavemealone) who came up with the tags on this post is clearly a smoker.
@Only Bwog Would have a “why is longevity assumed to be a universal value?” tag. It’s these tiny moments of genius that keep me away from Spectrum.
@Healthy Boy It’s not what they’re doing to themselves that’s the problem, it’s what they’re doing to everyone around them in the process.
In other parts of the world, there are little enclosed bus-stop like booths where people must stand in to smoke. It keeps litter off the streets, and all you see is a crowded glass booth full of smoke.
If you’re going to kill yourself, that’s fine. But don’t harm others in the process.
@You're forgetting... …the general air quality in NYC (i.e., from vehicles and construction). If you’re really concerned over air impurities, drop out of Columbia and attend a school located in a place where “there are little enclosed bus-stop like booths where people must stand in to smoke.”
@Die in a fire.
@Anonymous Am i the only one who thinks there’s really nothing wrong with providing negative incentives for people to quit smoking? Let’s be honest, it’s the smoker’s fault he started smoking in the first place; it should be his responsibility to quit or go find a f**king desert island where he can slowly kill himself without affecting other people.
@You normative fucker Only men smoke?
@Anonymous Amen
@Y u mad tho? It’s called the universal “he,” bro.
@it's called the universal “one” ?
on, uno, man, etc./whatever
@yea bro live with it brooooo.
@Anonymous (original poster) Actually, it’s funny you say that–when i wrote the post I started out writing “s/he”, “his/her”, etc., but there were just too many pronouns and I ended up switching them all to the masculine pronouns, because for better or worse humankind has a tendency to use the masculine when referring to both genders or ambiguous gender (i.e. God).
@inb4 smokestorm
@Anonymous Well, there’s an outdoor smoking ban in NYC.