New Campus Law Cost of Smoking Breaking the Habit

NEW CAMPUS LAW COST OF SMOKING BREAKING THE HABIT When passed, Cal State Fullerton will become The new campus ban on smoking and similar There are several options available for smokers the first university in the CSU to completely ban legislation in higher education have little to no to put an end to their addiction other than smoking on campus beginning fall 2013. 2 effect on tobacco profits. 3 quitting cold turkey. 4

Vol. 91 Issue 21 March 8, 2012 2 March 8, 2012 NEWS Lighting DTBRIEFS the way Former Marine for other Attempts Suicide The former U.S. Marine and Cal States Yorba Linda resident charged in a series of murders was temporarily put on suicide CSUF to be the first watch after attempting to to implement an all hurt himself while in custody, campus smoking ban his attorney told The Orange County Register Wednesday. MICHAEL MUNOZ Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, was Daily Titan seen banging his head against the metal toilet in his jail cell After Interim President Willie sometime Friday or Saturday, Hagan signs a new piece of legislation, his attorney Randall Longwith Cal State Fullerton will be the first California State University to ban said. smoking on campus once the new Longwith said it seemed that policy takes effect Aug. 1, 2013. Ocampo was hearing voices, CSUF will be spearheading the charge was plagued with headaches and before all the University of California Photo illustration by ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan twitches and apparently tried to campuses make a mandatory push for Students will be required to go off campus to smoke once the resolution is signed. The current policy states that smokers must be at least 20 feet away from any buildings unless otherwise posted. bang the voices, twitches and a smoking ban starting in 2014. headaches out of his head. The academic senate passed the no- “I think there was a great concern the sign. So a lot of smokers have not San Diego have smoking policies Ocampo was placed in a smoking resolution Feb. 23, which left about employee and student health, obeyed that, so frankly I think it was prohibiting smoking within 25 feet ... There was a “safety gown” Friday, Orange some members, like Academic Senate and also the litter on campus, and time for this change,” he added. of all buildings, doorways, windows great concern County Sheriff’s Department Chair John W. “Jack” Bedell, thrilled what goes down to the ocean from The smoking change will or has and ventilation intakes. UC Merced about employee and officials said. with the outcome. cigarette butts, and people not obeying already occurred at other California and UC Santa Barbara currently have student health, and also Ocampo was charged earlier “It’s huge. It’s huge. The fact that the rules … if you come out that campuses in the upcoming years, similar policies, prohibiting smoking this year in the deaths of four it passed in the Academic Senate side of McCarthy Hall, look by the most notably at all the UC campuses. within 20 feet. the litter on campus... homeless men, as well as the unanimously? It’s huge; that body steps. There’s a sign that says smoking A Smoking Policy of Occupational UC San Francisco has already deaths of a Yorba Linda woman passes very little unanimously,” should be 20 feet from the building, Wellness Forum was established for implemented a no-smoking policy and her adult son. said Bedell. yet there’s cigarette butts six feet from the UCs and launched a smoke-free throughout the entire campus, with John “Jack” Bedell policy in October 2011, which would no designated areas. Academic Senate Chair Brief by Sean Viele effectively make all UC campuses However, these policies will FOR THE RECORD smoke-free. change come 2014, due to what the of following the trend of banning For Bedell and the executive Occupational Wellness Forum stated smoking on campus. It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors printed in the committee who wrote the as health concerns not only to the “When I was going to the (junior publication. Corrections will be published on the subsequent issue CSUF smoking resolution, the smokers, but also the nonsmokers college, smoking) wasn’t banned all after an error is discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on the Apple Introduces Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections will also be UC smoking ban offered them through secondhand smoke. Research over campus. It’s the same thing it is New iPad made to the online version of the article. encouragement, but was not the conducted by the forum showed that now: no more than or closer to 20 feet Please contact Editor-in-Chief Michelle Wiebach at 657-278-5815 motivation behind the ban. 443,000 people die from tobacco away. I’m fine with that,” said Morey. Apple CEO Tim Cook or at [email protected] with issues about this policy or to “It’s fair to say that helped us related illnesses including 50,000 “Basically what they’re doing is trying report any errors. because we realized that others in the nonsmokers who developed chronic to legislate morality; they’re telling showed off the company’s state that were also concerned with lung problems. people we don’t like this so you can new version of the iPad in San student and employee health, so we The Forum’s research also indicated do it here. It’s bad for you so we’re not Francisco Wednesday. would be the first in CSU to have that smoking causes fatigue, therefore going to let you do it.” According to CNN.com, the it,” Bedell said. resulting in poor work performance Freedom to choose and necessity new iPad was presented by Cook “There are hundreds and hundreds and more frequent absences, an issue because of addiction are factors that and Apple Senior Vice President and hundreds of campuses all over the Bedell said will improve with the undeclared major Michelle Tran is Phil Schiller before a live crowd. country, well over 500 that are already smoking ban. conscious about. The presentation went through there … did we do it because the UC “The research is clear that when you “Some people feel that they have the improvements that the Editorial did it? No, but the fact that they were ban smoking in the workplace, you to go get a nicotine break,” she said. tablet will be making over the Editor-in-Chief Michelle Wiebach doing it in our state was also a form of have fewer days (of) absence, fewer “I don’t think it’s going to make current model, the iPad 2. Managing Editor Gilbert Gonzalez encouragement. It wasn’t a response to health problems; it’s a win-win for people realize that smoking is bad. At the forefront was a new News Editor Maribel Castañeda them,” he added. everybody,” Bedell said. Everyone knows that they know high definition display, taking News Editor Ian Wheeler Currently, the 10 UC campuses However, for Jeff Morey, 34, a smoking is bad for them. It’s their News Assistant Lance Morgan the tablet’s 9.7-inch touchscreen News Assistant Yvette Quintero all have regulations in place against business major, the trend of smoking choice. I don’t think it’s going to from its current 1024 by 768 News Assistant Sean Viele smoking. bans across the state isn’t a win-win stop them from smoking. I mean pixels to an impressive 2047 by Features Editor Joey Becerra UCs Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, situation. Morey said the campus they can easily go off campus. If they 1536. Features Assistant Andrea Ayala Riverside, Berkeley, Santa Cruz and should keep the current policy instead really wanted to smoke, they can.” Detour Editor Jaryd Lucero Schiller claims that the new Detour Assistant Stephanie Mercado iPad, which supports full 1080p Opinion Editor Charlotte Knight video, features visuals so crisp Opinion Assistant Amber Stephens New smoking programs to soften blow the human eye cannot perceive Sports Editor Rick Gomez the individual pixels. Sports Editor Clark Pagaduan Academic Senate frame will allow the university to Education and Exchange Office Sports Assistant Blake Fogg effectively spread education and to help ensure that awareness and The device will also feature an Sports Assistant Greg Woodson plans for educational awareness about the transition from education is publicized. improved 5-megapixel camera Copy Editor Nuran Alteir and will run on 4G wireless Copy Editor Gillian Hadland awareness programs a smoke-permissible campus to a Implementing cessation Copy Assistant Danny Chau smoke-free campus. programs will give smokers the networks. Photo Editor William Camargo STEPHEN McGLADE The Academic Senate will not option to seek professional help Apple will be releasing the Daily Titan Photo Editor Anibal Ortiz be directly running the cessation through the university. The new iPad March 16. The price Photo Assistant Robert Huskey will range from $499 to $829 Photo Assistant Camille Tarazon After a unanimous vote to make and awareness programs, but will Academic Senate will look at Photo Assistant Allan Xu Cal State Fullerton a smoke-free be available to help formulate the American Cancer Society and it will be available on both Layout Editor Alvan Ung campus starting August 2013, programs. and other universities’ cessation AT&T and Verizon networks. Layout Editor Mike White the Academic Senate will begin John W. “Jack” Bedell, Ph.D., programs, which will help the Layout Assistant Vanessa Martinez to organize assistance to current the chair of the Academic Senate, university shape its own programs Multimedia Editor Marlena Coelho-Sousae Brief by Ricardo Gonzalez Multimedia Editor Joseph McHale smokers by providing awareness and said the policy will be publicized along with the Student Health and Multimedia Editor Cara Seo education programs in preparation at the Office of Environmental Counseling Center. Multimedia Assistant Erinn Grotefend for the ban. Health and Instructional Safety. Some smokers are unhappy with Multimedia Assistant Zachary Romo These campaigns will run for the They will be providing faculty, the rule and think it may be a little Multimedia Assistant Jose Chamu Santana next 18 months and will include staff, students and visitors with extreme, believing that the current Web Editor Susana Cobo Webmaster David McLaren cessation programs to assist faculty notice of the policy through policy is sufficient. They feel the and students who would like help signs, information campaigns or university could at least reinforce Sociology Week Adviser Holly Rizzo with overcoming their tobacco other publications. Managers and designated smoking areas. Others Focuses on Gender habit. New Student Orientations administrators are responsible for are more accepting of the policy, Main Line (657) 278-5815 Editorial Fax (657) 278-2702 will also alert incoming students of informing all present and future but they are still unhappy about it News Line (657) 278-4415 E-mail: [email protected] Cal State Fullerton’s Alpha the new policy. employees about the policy. and obligated to obey the policy. Kappa Delta International Advertising The final policy has taken years Just one day after the Senate “I pay to go here. I would follow Sociology Honor Society is to resolve and the Senate feels resolved the smoking ban, Bedell the rules. If you don’t like the presenting Sociology Week Director of Advertising Amber VanOrman collectively that this is a major said he overheard a student tell rules that much, don’t come here. Asst. Director of Advertising &/AE Amanda Fessenden 2012 at the Titan Student improvement to the campus another student to put out their Even though they suck, those are Union March 12-14. National Sales & Promotions Daniel Zamilpa community. The 18-month time cigarette. Without a doubt, the rules; tough luck,” said Sloane Asst. National Sales & Promotions Jerry Kou The College of Humanities awareness of the policy has already Cummings, a radio-TV-film Production Assistant Liz Hernandez and Sociology’s theme for the begun to spread. major and smoker. “There’s many Production Assistant Tiffany Le Director of Advertising week is “Gendering Global Issues If the legislation is signed by campuses that don’t allow people to Account Executive Eric Van Asst.Raalte Advertising Director and Justice” and will feature Production Assistant Interim President Willie Hagan, smoke, and people smoke anyway Account Executive Cindy Ang speakers on a variety of subjects, Account Executive Sepideh Nia Production Assistant CSUF will be the first CSU to … It’s not like it’s very enforceable.” including human trafficking Account Executive KimiyaNational Enshaian Sales & Promotions fully ban smoking on campus. One of the policy’s biggest Classifieds Manager Account Executive Una Korac The publicity from that alone will obstacles will be enforcement. It awareness, transgender issues in Senior Account Executive society and what to do with a Account Executive Jessica MartinezAccount Executive also help spread the word of the is really the campus community’s Account Executive policy. New Student Orientation responsibility to keep the campus degree in sociology. Adviser Robert Sage Account Executive are a great part of successfully smoke-free. Some feel the task of All the presentations on Account Executive implementing the policy. enforcement is simply too big. The Monday and Tuesday will be Main Line (657) 278-3373 Editorial Fax (657)Account 278-2702 Executive “The issue is changing the culture size of the campus is a major factor, held at the TSU in Pavilion Advertising (657) 278-4411 E-mail: [email protected] Executive Webmaster … It’s got 18 months to transition,” as is the willingness of the smoker C. The Wednesday morning Distribution said Bedell. “So you would hope community to abide by the rule. lectures will be held at the Business Manager/Adviser that an educational community can “It’s just like skateboarding and TSU in Gabrielino, and the transition effectively in 18 months biking on campus. It’s still gonna Wednesday afternoon lectures … There’s more of an emphasis on be there no matter what,” said will be held in Hetebrink. The Daily Titan is a student publication, printed every Monday through Thursday. The New Student Orientation, both for Marcos Banuelos, an illustration The first lecture will be Daily Titan operates independently of Associated Students, College of Communications, new students and transfers.” major. Monday at 10 a.m. and will CSUF administration and the CSU. The Daily Titan has functioned as a public forum The Senate has recognized Ultimately, the success of since inception. Unless implied by the advertising party or otherwise stated, advertising in feature speaker Maria Suarez, an the Daily Titan is inserted by commercial activities or ventures identified in the advertise- that foreign students are another the policy depends on the activist and survivor of human ments themselves and not by the university. Such printing is not to be construed as written specific group that must be made entire campus community’s trafficking. or implied sponsorship, endorsement or investigation of such commercial enterprises. The aware of the school’s new stance consideration and sensitivity to Daily Titan allocates one issue to each student for free. on smoking. The Senate will be others. Bedell said it’s all about Brief by Mark Payne working with the International “informal peer pressure.”

Contact Us at [email protected] March 8, 2012 3 NEWS Kicking the habit with drugs Prescription and over-the-counter Toy said he has never been to counseling to help him medications, like Chantix and quit smoking and does not like the idea of someone trying to make him quit. Nicorette, can help smokers quit “It doesn’t feel good to have a parent tell me that I have to quit smoking every day and go back to counseling,” ERINN GROTEFEND Daily Titan Toy said. “It’s like rehab.” Bupropion, more commonly known by the brand For some, cold turkey is a meal after Thanksgiving. name Wellbutrin, is a medication used to treat For others, it is the beginning of kicking a bad habit. depression but can also be used for people to quit There are different avenues smokers can take to quit smoking. According to the U.S. National Library of smoking that include prescription medication, over-the- Medicine, this medication works by increasing certain counter medication and therapy. types of activity in the brain. Cal State Fullerton’s Student Health and Counseling Boucher said Wellbutrin acts on receptors in the Center (SHCC) physicians can suggest prescription brain to curtail the craving. The U.S. National Library medications, over-the-counter medications and other of Medicine confirms this fact by stating the medication forms of health care. The Counseling and Psychological helps people stop smoking by reducing cravings and Services (CAPS) provides individual counseling and other withdrawal effects. psychiatric treatment among other forms of counseling. Dru Biba, 32, started smoking about five years Richard Boucher, CSUF chief staff physician, ago. Biba has never thought about or tried to quit said prescriptions that can help smokers quit include smoking. Biba said he does not have any heath Chantix, Wellbutrin and over-the-counter Nicorette. problems now and would not take prescription Chantix is the brand name for the prescription medication to quit smoking. medication Varenicline. According to the U.S. “I’m not really interested in pharmaceutical stuff like National Library of Medicine, this medication is that,” said Biba. considered a smoking cessation aid because it works Instead of taking medication to help quit, Biba said to block the pleasant effects of nicotine on the brain. smokers should read self-help books. Biba knows a few Along with medication, patients are advised to take people who have quit by using this form of treatment. part in counseling. Nicotine Lozenges, known by their name brand “The health center can provide a prescription for Nicorette, are classified as smoking cessation aids Chantix whether they have insurance or not,” said according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Boucher. “It depends if the patient can afford it.” Nicorette provides nicotine to the smoker’s body in Harrison Toy, 20, an undeclared major, started order to reduce the urge to smoke and decrease the smoking at the age of 16 when he first found his sister’s withdrawal symptoms. Photo illustration by STEPHEN McGLADE / Daily Titan cigarettes. Toy said he tried to quit smoking but so far Smokers are able to purchase four different types of New York ranked first in the U.S. in tax collected on cigarette packs. California is lower on the list at No. 33. has had no luck. Nicorette products from its website. The four include “Cold turkey … weaning … it doesn’t work because I Nicorette gum, Nicorette Lozenge, Nicorette mini want to smoke,” said Toy. Lozenge and Nicorette Pocket Pack. The difficulty to quit smoking is obvious. Toy said Smokers can also sign up for the support system, Chantix would probably be useful but his biggest Nicorette Committed Quitters. This program provides High taxes for smokers concern was the side effects. newsletters, personalized solutions and daily reminders, According to the Chantix website, some patients have tips and inspirations. The average cost of a pack of cigarettes in If they are going to had depression, suicidal thoughts or actions and changes Toy does not agree with the idea of using Nicorette Calif. is $5.71, of which $1.26 is collected as tax in behavior. gum or lozenges to help smokers quit. make it a campus- More than seven million people in the U.S. have “Replacing one drug with another drug doesn’t really MARK PAYNE they face as smokers, but it was not wide ban, that kind of already been prescribed Chantix, according to the make any sense to me,” Toy said. Daily Titan a big influence in their decision to bothers me ... I feel like Chantix website. In a survey provided by the American College Health smoke or not to smoke. Most of they are not really being Chantix differs from other smoking cessation aids Association National College Health Assessment With the cost of tobacco rising, them said they paid a little more sympathetic toward the because it does not contain nicotine. The website states, (ACHA-NCHA), 68.9 percent of CSUF students which includes heavy taxation, and than $5 for a pack of cigarettes, but Chantix targets nicotine receptors in the brain, attaches never smoked a cigarette during the spring 2010 with the health problems associated that price was not a problem. people who smoke. to them, and blocks nicotine from reaching them. semester. Out of the 890 respondents, 2.8 percent of with smoking so well documented, According to a report by the Joe Gillespie The program GETQUIT is recommended with the those surveyed smoked a cigarette everyday for the past some students are being forced to Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Marketing Major 12-week cycle of Chantix and includes a full year of 30 days. make the tough decision of whether average cost of a pack of cigarettes in support. The free program includes online and phone “Quitting smoking would be one of the most to continue smoking, cut back the California as of January, is $5.71. bothers me,” said Gillespie. “I feel like support that includes coaches and a 24/7 hot line. important health issues an individual could do,” number of cigarettes they smoke or The revenue from taxes collected they are not really being sympathetic Members also receive a progress tracker and information Boucher said. “It starts with the want to do so, and quit the habit altogether. by the state is $1.26 per pack. New toward the people who smoke.” to help smokers in certain situations. then having the support to do so.” Cal State Fullerton students might York ranked first in tax collected on Another smoker who did not have an easier time making the cigarette packs. California ranked agree with the complete banning decision because smoking is on its at No. 33. of smoking on campus was Joseph way to being legislated off of the Cal The AWL website reports that Castillo, a junior philosophy major. Cigarette butts a health threat State Fullerton campus. A resolution California ranks near the bottom He said he feels he has a right to has been unanimously passed by at No. 46 when compared with the smoke on campus, as long as it is in An estimated 1.7 billion pounds of the toxic the Academic Senate that will make average price in other states. the designated areas. byproduct are found in bodies of water annually There are millions CSUF a smoke-free environment Amir Karkia, a junior marketing “It would upset me just because of cigarette butts beginning Aug. 1, 2013, if signed by major who smokes about a pack I think I have a right to a cigarette known to cause cancer and damage Interim President Willie Hagan. a week, said he understands the outside, outdoors … Like I said, MEC VALLE in the ocean, and we are Daily Titan vital organs. David Contreras, a theatre arts school’s decision to make CSUF a I’m in a designated area for smoking “All the chemicals do not just drinking, swimming and major, was a heavy smoker at one smoke-free campus. cigarettes, and people passing by Besides sand, cigarette litter is magically disappear. They remain playing in the water. time, but now he only carries “I respect the school’s decision, know that; they see that (it’s) a the most abundant item found on wherever that butt is deposited, cigarettes for scenes he does while so whatever the school wants smoking area,” said Castillo. beaches. whether it’s deposited in the ocean Stephanie Barger on stage. He quit after questioning I’ll respect it,” said Karkia. “I In a report done for the American According to Quit Tobacco’s and on the beaches. A lot of the time, Executive Director himself about why he smoked. understand times are changing Cancer Society by Dr. Jeffrey E. website, cigarette butt litter makes you’ll see them washed into the sewer Earth Resource Foundation “Price was a factor, and at the and this isn’t the sixties, where Harris, Ph.D., on the profits of up approximately 50 percent of all systems … and then they go into the same time after a while it was just everything was very nonchalant cigarette manufactures, he explained litter in most Western countries. It river system,” said Elaine Long, an filters containing toxic chemicals. like this smells bad, this tastes bad, (toward smoking), so I’m actually why legislation like this has no affect is estimated that 1.7 billion pounds environmental science major. “You After animals like fish absorb the this feels bad, and it’s like ‘why cutting back, so I’m OK with it.” on tobacco profits. of cigarette butts are found in lakes, can imagine having that kind of toxins, they are sometimes transferred am I doing this?’” said Contreras. Some of the smokers from CSUF Harris’ study showed the demand oceans and beaches every year. chemical burden is not good.” back to humans, smokers and “It was kind of like one of those were bothered by the new legislation for cigarettes is unresponsive to During the 2000 Coastal Cleanup Unfinished cigarettes have more nonsmokers, as food. epiphanies where you go, was I banning all smoking on campus. economic changes. Because of Day, 230,000 cigarette butts were of a potential in doing harm by “There are millions of cigarette doing this just for a fad or just to Joe Gillespie, a junior marketing this, an increase in price will raise picked up in one day. increasing the chance introducing butts in the ocean, and we are look cool or something like that, major who smokes between one and more revenue even though it causes Stephanie Barger, executive toxic chemicals to the environment. drinking, swimming and playing in and it got to the point where I was two packs a week, said he is against a consumption to fall. The taxes that director of the Earth Resource “They treat the tobacco leaves the water. We are also eating (animals) like this isn’t worth it.” campus-wide ban on all smoking. are levied against the manufactures Foundation, has experience cleaning with chemicals so if people don’t that are eating the butts or digesting Students often mentioned the cost “If they are going to make it are just passed on to the consumer, so up cigarette butts. smoke the entire thing down to the all the chemicals,” Barger said. of tobacco as one of the problems a campus-wide ban, that kind of profits do not change. “On average we pick up 12,000 filter. A lot of the chemicals they cigarette butts in two hours at an treat the leaves with ... they are still average beach cleanup, and this is there. So if you just tossed it on the probably only 20 percent of the butt ground you’re gonna have leeching litter, so the other 80 percent has into whatever is below it — the dirt, already gone into the ocean,” said the plants,” Long said. Barger in an email. Not only do the cigarettes An article, “Acute Toxicity of themselves cause damage to the Cigarette Butt Leachate to Marine environment, but also the various and Freshwater Fish,” by Elli wrappers that come with cigarettes. Slaughter states, “Cigarette butts “A lot of time, the wrapper that are the most common form of goes around the cigarettes is equally plastic litter on the beaches of the as toxic, because in order to (avoid U.S. and worldwide.” getting burned), you have to put According to another article by things like fiberglass … it takes forever Slaughter, cigarette litter has the to go away in the environment, and WANTED potential to cause major damage to it’s not exactly a clean breakdown the environment. process. It is a toxic breakdown BEST BREASTS The filters of cigarette butts are process,” Long said. not biodegradable and contain Slaughter said in the article, plastic in them. 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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Is the smoking Re: A ‘Fluke’ in this situation There has been a lot of discussion over bedroom,” was intended to mean that ban justifiable? the recent events surrounding Sandra government should not restrict people’s Fluke and women’s access to healthcare. ability to marry who they want or We felt it necessary to distinguish fact do what they want with their bodies. It’s for your health and that of your peers Our bodies, our health, not your concern from fiction, particularly after reading Restricting access to women’s healthcare Keith Fierro’s article. While we can would, in effect, prevent women from certainly understand how an issue as keeping their bodies healthy. The PRO: ROXANNE TELLES CON: JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ contentious as this one can cause a EEOC acknowledges that access to debate to be heated, we believe the level birth control decreases maternal and of discourse that Mr. Fierro has chosen infant mortality. They also believe that After the Academic Senate voted uncomfortable, let us not forget the A campus-wide smoking ban and Drug Administration (FDA). The to use not only diminishes women, but the denial of contraceptive coverage is unanimously in favor of Cal State less than favorable policies imposed infringes on our civil rights and FDA mandated tobacco companies lowers the stature of Cal State Fullerton, sex discrimination in health insurance Fullerton becoming a smoke-free on society that don’t cause negative possibly our constitutional rights. to put graphic images of things like just months before Dr. Mildred Garcia (a plans. campus beginning in 2013, eyebrows health effects, but were simply created Recently, the Academic Senate diseased lungs on actual cigarette woman) is about to take the presidency The Department of Health raised all across campus, bringing because of annoyance to others. For decided that Cal State Fullerton packages. However, Judge Richard of our great university. and Human Services, acting on The Sandra Fluke controversy recommendations from the Institute up the appropriate question: Is this instance, loud and unreasonable noise would be a smoke-free campus Leon ruled Feb. 29 the government’s emerged when congressman Darrell of Medicine, requires health insurance smoking ban justifiable? is prohibited under California Penal beginning Aug. 1, 2013. rule violated the tobacco companies’ Issa, chair of House Oversight plans to cover contraception, with no First and foremost, by granting Code 415, known as “disturbing Let me start off by saying that right to free speech. Committee, refused to allow Ms. Fluke co-payments or deductibles. HHS a policy that prohibits smoking, a the peace”. So basically, if your I don’t smoke and just like most For the average student smoker, an opportunity to testify in a hearing Secretary Sebelius added a “conscious healthier environment is created neighbor feels that your loud music nonsmokers, I don’t appreciate school can get pretty tough, especially on women’s access to contraception. clause” to the rule, which allows certain not only for the students, but also is annoying, he or she has the ability cigarette smoke being blown in my around finals, and some will turn to What was particularly incendiary of the religious employers like churches the faculty, staff and any visitors on to call the police. If you choose to general vicinity. However, a ban of cigarettes to relieve that stress. Forcing congressman’s decision was that Ms. to exclude birth control from their campus. The policy will improve the not turn the music down, you have smoking on campus is a violation of students to leave the campus just to Fluke would have been the only woman employees’ health insurance. After the air quality and appearance of the now committed a misdemeanor for our civil liberties. indulge in their habit definitely feels to speak at the hearing. initial outcry from Catholic Bishops, In case you were unaware, the price of religiously affiliated organizations were campus. annoying someone. This also goes for Ultimately, it is the smoker’s as if their civil liberties are a target in prescription medication, including birth also included in the conscious clause, There is no doubt that many using offensive words in public. choice to pick up a pack of cigarettes trying to promote health. control, is set by the pharmaceutical even though these exemptions would would argue that by banning Although we may be the first CSU and light one up. Another alarming thing with companies that manufacture it. Though prevent many women from receiving smoking on campus, one’s rights are to adapt a smoke-free campus, this Despite all the literature and the Academic Senate ban is that the medication can be purchased full access to healthcare. being taken away. But what about ban is in no way revolutionary, as scientific evidence that has linked smoking in your car on campus will at a substantially lower price, if an While it might make perfect sense the rights of fellow students who are many UCs have already established smoking to cancer, people still make also be banned, even if there is less individual’s insurance plan does not in Peoria for Mr. Fierro to equivocate forced to endure the hazards exposed a policy on a tobacco-free campus. the choice to smoke. of a chance of that cigarette smoke is cover the particular medication, the women’s healthcare to filling a car with from secondhand smoke? By inhaling High schools and many community And as long as it is still legal in affecting anyone else. individual is then forced to pay full price gas; driving a car is a privilege, healthcare smoke involuntarily, non-smokers colleges already have set policies of the U.S. to smoke in public places, I think this goes a little too far. for it. Contraception is no exception to is a right. We hope Mr. Fierro will be the rule, -and yes Mr. Fierro, it can cost able to know the difference. And you are prone to take in what is known prohibiting smoking on campus, so should be the case in our public Students or faculty cars are technically upwards to $3,000. don’t necessarily have to be a women’s as “sidestream smoke,” which is the where many CSUF students are schools (obviously not in elementary their private property. Not only When Mr. Fierro’s claims that studies major to have a brain, though smoke that smolders off the end of making the transition from anyway. through high schools). should they be able to do as they women want the government “out of Mr. Fierro might just prove us wrong the cigarette and contains more tar, It is common in California for CSUF is a public, state-funded please, they also would be affecting (our) bedroom,” he is suggesting that this time. nicotine, particles and gases than the local governments along the state school, and once you turn 18 it is a less students than they would in the the classic party line from the left on smoke being inhaled by the smoker. to enforce similar bans on smoking civil liberty to be able to smoke in a higher traffic areas on campus. social policy applies to his argument, Elliot Lam It is substantially more dangerous, as outdoors, including several cities in public open-air area. If nonsmokers Additionally, a result of this when it actually doesn’t. “Out of our Political Science Major these fumes have not passed through Orange County like Huntington, have a problem with someone smoking ban could have an effect on the cigarette filter. According to Newport and Seal Beach. smoking in their vicinity then it can surrounding businesses surrounding The Daily Titan welcomes letters to the editor. All letters must include the American Council for Drug There’s also the social aspect that be as simple as walking away. CSUF. Restaurants or coffee shops the sender’s first and last name. Students must include their majors and Education, this “sidestream smoke” comes from smoking. Bonds are The vast majority of people that could see an influx of smokers and other writers must include their affiliation to the university, if applicable. Letters must refer to an article published within the last week. Once a letter may cause respiratory distress, allergic created between smokers, making it attend the university as students, cigarette butts on their property, is submitted it becomes property of the Daily Titan. Publication of letters is reactions and lung cancer. easier for one person to be influenced faculty and staff are adults so they, which could shed a negative light on based on the validity of content and may be edited for length, grammar and Aside from the health risks to light up a cigarette when offered in turn, can make decisions as adults the university and add to the pollution spelling. Letters may be sent to [email protected]. associated with secondhand smoke, by another. Many college students in whether they partake or avoid around the city of Fullerton. it is important to mention that consider themselves social smokers, smoking. That decision does not There are already precautions non-smokers can find cigarette so this ban is possibly the prevention need to be made by the Academic instated to keep smokers away smoke to be extremely disturbing. needed to force those “social smokers” Senate. from doorways of the buildings on Breaking the habit: A The unmistakable smell of smoke to kick their bad habit completely. Whether smoking falls under campus, so why does this new policy has a tendency to permeate any People are also overall more likely to the freedom of expression in the have to include the entire campus? strong nicotine dilemma surrounding area and continues to quit if others do the same. First Amendment is something that If there are designated areas on linger after the smoker has passed. At the end of the day, the ban has been debated for many years. campus where a student needs to Overcoming addiction unhealthy for him, it was also harmful Smokers seem generally unaware of on smoking is justifiable because However, according to CBS News, walk their bike or ride their bike, is difficult, but doable for his children. the inconvenience while bystanders it contributes to everyone living a the tobacco companies have recently then why can’t there be designated Embarrassed and disgusted, he quit. are forced to suffer. healthier life, even if it is just when won a First Amendment case against areas where students can smoke a The best way to overcome nicotine MICHAEL MUNOZ In addition to the making others they’re on campus. the U.S. government entity; the Food cigarette in between classes? Daily Titan addiction is through nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). The Growing up with two iconic figures American Cancer Society and the FDA kept me away from touching a cigarette. has approved these five methods of The first was the lady in the PSA ads in NRT listed below. The point of NRT EDITORIAL who, from smoking too much, inhales is to help one reduce their nicotine her cigarette from a hole in her neck. addiction and abstain from it through Second, the Cigarette-Smoking Man a gradual reduction. in the X-Files, the central villain of the Smoking ban will be the new skateboarding ban series who caused a living hell for the Patches: The most common of lives of Agents Mulder and Scully. the bunch is not exactly the fashion The Academic Senate unanimously approved matter, we think the ban is against student to smoking cessation programs instead of These two people gave me an accessory of the year. The patch works a resolution Feb. 23 to ban all smoking on Cal freedom. Smoking is unhealthy, but it is a creating rules that are going to be difficult to impression that smoking was either by releasing nicotine into the body at State Fullerton’s campus. According to the personal choice. We think the current policy enforce. The current policy is only ineffective grotesquely disturbing or villainously variable rate, depending on its strength. current policy, smoking is prohibited inside as protects students from secondhand smoke while because of the lack of enforcement on campus. chilling. Other than these two media Gum: This isn’t nicotine’s version of well as within 20 feet of any building on the not trampling on the liberties of others. While The problems with enforcement will not go figures, I had no personal connection Hubba Bubba Max, but this peppery university area. The rationale behind the ban it may not have been 100 percent effective, it away with this new ban. If the purpose was to smoking, or the powerful addiction tasting gum is the fastest of the five is that the current policy was not working, so a did not violate a person’s rights. Anyone who to mitigate problems, then the ban is going to that is nicotine… until my father as far as regulating and replacing total ban was necessary. wanted to smoke could do so. Those who make them worse. Students will still try to get picked up the habit. nicotine in the body. It allows the user If signed by Interim President Willie Hagan, did not want to deal with secondhand smoke away with smoking on campus. We’re wasting I didn’t think much of it until he to control the amount of nicotine that the ban is expected to extend to smoking in would not have to in front of buildings, and we resources trying to stop it from happening. started smoking three packs a day. I they consume, by the amount of gums your own vehicle with the windows down on had a personal choice to walk away. We would much rather see the Academic couldn’t believe the excessive amount. they choose to take. The gums come in campus. The ban would go into effect Aug. 1, While we disagree with the new rules, we Senate address issues that are not only in I guess that what the stress of going 2mg and 4mg nicotine strength. 2013. feel the students who violated the current our interest, but also based on what students through a divorce puts you through. Nasal Spray: Works exactly like According to its website, the Academic policy are part of the reason it was brought actually want to see changed. We think a greater According to the National Institute Afrin nasal spray used to fight nasal Senate consists of faculty members whose up. It’s unfortunate that students who acted concern for student health is the availability of on Drug Abuse nicotine addiction is congestion, but instead you’re fighting objective is to be the representative legislative responsibly and followed the current rules will healthy food on campus. There’s a plethora of the leading preventable cause of lung nicotine addiction. Like nicotine gum body of the university to and speak on behalf have to deal with this new ban. fast food options at Cal State Fullerton, but disease, disability and death. Smoking you can control the dosage amount of the university community on matters within Most likely, the ban will not cause students hardly any healthy choices. This is a problem is attributed to 90 percent of lung you intake. Normally two sprays into its purview. to quit smoking. Instead, they will be forced to for current and incoming students that can be cancer and about 38,000 deaths per each nostril are required. Unlike the While the Academic Senate may think they leave campus to smoke. If smoking is a health fixed by the same people who are supposed to year. A disquieting fact that the NIDA patches and the gum the nasal spray are acting in the interests of students on this concern, then we should be directing our focus speak on behalf of students. reports is that many people try to quit must be prescribed by a doctor. smoking, roughly 35 million, but of Inhalers: Nicotine inhalers work those who are trying to quit, more than the same way asthmatic inhalers 85 percent of them relapse. work except that the nicotine vapors Nicotine’s addictive components go directly to the mouth and not the include that of a brain chemical that lungs. According to the FDA cigarette regulates feelings of pleasure. Nicotine smokers like the inhalers most because enters the body through the tobacco they act as a phantom cigarette. Like smoked and is quickly disseminated the nasal spray, inhalers must be into the lungs onto the bloodstream. prescribed by a doctor. Nicotine can also be absorbed into Lozenges: These pills work like the the bloodstream through mucous gum. The user controls the amount membranes of the mouth (in the case they take, due to the amount of of chewing tobacco). withdraw they are experiencing. Once nicotine is in the brain and once it activates the pleasure zone of All these NRT alternatives require your brain, it will begin to crave it. This a lot of work and dedication. They happens because nicotine increases all have side effects, but, like all drug the levels of dopamine released inside cleansing, the final healthy outcome the brain and the pleasure zones. The will outweigh the side effects. addiction component is that people Remember, everyone is different; what continue to abuse smoking to get works for someone might not work for the short-term pleasurable sensation, another, and if you are someone who even when they know the long-term struggles to fight the nicotine addiction harmful effects its causes. and relapse, it’s OK. Just dust yourself I knew I had to voice my concern off and try again. as soon as my father hit the three- These alone are not the only way to boxes-of-cigarettes-a-day routine. I fight nicotine addiction but they are didn’t want him to be smoking out the most common and helpful. My of his neck. Plus, nicotine could also father decided to go with the gum; not be absorbed through the skin, so liking the taste, he decided to go cold secondhand smoke could affect me. turkey. It worked. He hasn’t touched a So not only was his smoking habit cigarette in more than 15 years.

An Electronic artificial cigarettes, ember may soon burn near you a fairly new product, The nicotine itself, still face uncertainty essentially, is the drug that you develop a RICARDO GONZALEZ dependence on. Daily Titan Sean Hogan Admissions Coordinator/ The small, white cylinder is CSUF Social Work drawn away from the mouth as Department a smoky substance wafts out. It fades into nothingness and That uncertainty stretches itself the cylinder is brought back up to CSUF’s campus. for another drag. Instead of a The Academic Senate recently smoldering ember burning bright, considered passing a policy, last a dull LED bulb at the end of the week to make CSUF a smoke- cigarette glows red. free campus by August 2013. The device being described is Electronic cigarettes, hovever, an electronic cigarette, which is were never discussed in the policy. designed to simulate the use, feel “I know that that kind of thing and look of its more commercial has not been addressed,” said tobacco counterpart. Kenneth Walicki, vice chair of the Utilizing an internal battery Academic Senate. “It was my name connected to a small atomizer, a that was on the resolution, and liquid and nicotine solution is fed nothing about electronic cigarettes into the device and vaporized with was in there, I’m positive.” each puff that the user takes. If one was relegated to the Consequently, someone using campus of CSUF, they would an electronic cigarette is not truly Photo illustration by ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan likely be hard-pressed to find a “smoking” because no smoke is Due to a lack of information, health officials are split over whether or not electronic cigarettes are detrimental to user’s health. Consumers can’t seem to make up their minds either. single example of someone using produced. Instead, they are doing electronic cigarettes. something known as “vaping”, Sean Hogan, associate professor familiar with e-cigarettes, said been less than satisfied with the be placed under the scrutiny of If the prominence of e-cigarettes a term commonly recognized by and admissions coordinator for that it was likely that they trump artificial replacement. invasive testing or regulation has were to grow, the Academic Senate users of these gadgets. the Cal State Fullerton Social smoking real cigarettes only by a “It’s the ritual of smoking,” been placed on classic cigarettes. would have to address the issue, Think of electronic cigarettes Work Department, said, “The real relatively small margin. said Trevor Prins, 27, a CSUF A 2009 report by the Food and said Walicki. as humidifiers. Rather than hazard with regular cigarettes is all He conceded that they probably marketing major. “It’d be better Drug Administration stated that the Academic Senate Chair Jack simulating natural air moisture, the adulterants and carcinogens aren’t the best choice for those than other methods, but, at the majority of e-cigarette products had Bedell confirmed via email that e-cigarettes simulate the act that are incorporated into them looking to quit. same time, I think the only way to not been submitted for evaluation the policy remains “silent” on the of smoking while supposedly during the manufacturing process “You’re still simulating quit is to go cold turkey.” or approval, and therefore, “... The subject of electronic cigarettes. providing a safer experience. and then the fact that you smoke smoking,” Hogan said, “so from a Prins has used electronic cigarettes agency has no way of knowing, Still, though little is known If the user of an electronic them … The nicotine itself, psychological standpoint, (you’re on occasion, but said, “It’s cool if except for the limited testing it has about electronic cigarettes, do not cigarette is still taking in copious essentially, is the drug that you not really) ‘quitting’. It’s like you can get by on that, but nothing performed, the levels of nicotine be surprised if the familiar sight of amounts of nicotine from their develop a dependence on, and drinking non alcoholic beer.” beats the real thing,” he said. or the amounts or kinds of other burning natural embers comes to solution and still acting out the that’s what keeps you smoking.” Some who have tried electronic Because of their relative infancy, chemicals that the various brands of be replaced by the artificial glow motions of smoking, is it still safe? Hogan, though not intimately cigarettes as an alternative have electronic cigarettes have yet to these products deliver to the user.” of an LED in 2013. It’s a slippery slope advancing from social smoker to ash breath The mysterious appeal of I’ll never forget the first time that I My coworker Arrena snickered. If you’ve never smoked by yourself, smoking turns out to be just smoked; I’m sure nobody does. “Are you sure you want to try it?” she you should know that when you do, you From that morning on, It was late — the end of the work night. I asked me in challenge. feel a sense of freedom that you don’t feel I made the decision a bunch of empty smoke was hanging out with a couple of my fellow For some strange reason, I did. anywhere else. servers in the back of the parking lot, real From that moment on, I became a social It’s like taking all of the pressure that that I didn’t want to become a JOEY BECERRA stereotypical smoker. Daily Titan rebellious looking. smoker, always remembering the golden rule people put on you to not smoke, and saying Most nights, I hung out with my of social smoking — “Don’t ever smoke a “the hell with it. I’m going to do it anyways.” I’ll admit it, I’m never the first person to coworkers at the end of our shift while they cigarette by yourself.” From there, smoking sort of snowballed try something new. reunited with their precious cigarettes. I usually got cigarettes from friends. for me. I would smoke every time that I From that morning on, I made the It’s no surprise that when everyone else I prefer to use the word reunited because Smoking gradually became easy for me. got out of work. decision that I didn’t want to become a around me at work would duck out during I had been told my whole life that when you After a while, I didn’t feel like I was going I wasn’t a heavy smoker. I only smoked sterotypical smoker. their breaks and at the end of their shifts to smoke a cigarette for the first time, you can to choke every time I took a breath. once or twice a day. Sometimes I had one on I didn’t like having to wash my hands smoke a cigarette, I didn’t. never, ever stop. I didn’t feel dizzy when I smoked on my my way to work, one after work. Most times, every three seconds. I hated the disapproving Before I had my first cigarette, I thought Like most other nights, we chatted while work break. I did it in combination with drinking. lectures from my friends. I felt guilty from that smoking was only for the bad kids. they drew long breaths from their cigarettes. I learned about the parts of a cigarette, After a while, I couldn’t stop. The apex of sneaking around. Growing up, I definitely was not one Watching them smoke was almost developing a preference for those with a my smoking career came when, one night, Quitting was difficult. It’s hard to see of the bad kids. In my youth, I listened to magical. It was fascinating — watching crushable menthol ball. I smoked a whole pack of cigarettes on the other people smoking when you leave the my parents and kept my nose clean. I was them draw the cigarettes up in a smooth, Eventually, I carried my own pack of patio of a restaurant. bar — wanting the warmth of another always the first person to raise my hand in graceful ark, hearing the deep draw of a cigarettes in the trunk of my car for fear that Let me tell you, waking up in the morning cigarette. For me, the warmth was the best class when we were asked why people should breath, seeing the end of the cigarette flare my parents would find them. after smoking a whole pack of cigarettes part, the part that made it worth it. refrain from smoking. golden orange and then smoulder. Then, one day, I broke the golden rule. is not something that you want to do. My I’ll admit, smoking is fun, but not waking That’s why it was such a shock to me when Before I could help myself, I heard myself After a particularly hard day at work, I breath smelled, my stomach was turning and up feeling like I am going to hurl at any I tried my first cigarette. say, “Can I try your cigarette?” decided to have a cigarette by myself. my mouth tasted like I swallowed an ashtray. moment is so much more fun.

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In the 20th century, According to the U.S. Health cigarettes were clearly Public Service, this insinuated that a girl’s best friend smoking coincided with skinniness. Cigarettes became the new accessory for women. Celebrities AJAI SPELLMAN Daily Titan and supermodels were soon featured in magazines such as Women obviously hold the purse Vogue wearing clothes that were strings. Case in point: cigarette more form-fitting, with bound advertisements. breasts and tubular dresses, using Tobacco advertisers began gearing cigarettes to compliment their their ads specifically towards women sexiness and independence. in the 1920s. These ads portrayed Along with the stigma of thin women as attractive, fashionable and women smoking, ads suggested that liberated. In turn, smoking among women who smoked were desirable women became very popular. and gave off sex appeal. After World War I ended and In later years, advertising women gained suffrage, they became companies put media stars like more optimistic about being viewed Marilyn Monroe, the classic sex as equals in society. Who would have symbol, on a pedestal by displaying thought that the cigarette would them in movies and on billboards play a significant role in aiding holding cigarettes and wearing sexy, women on their road to equality? body-conscious ensembles. After the war, women subscribed Although advertisements directed to the “anything you can do, I can towards women dominated the do better” sentiment. As a result, market during the 20th century, this they began consuming an object may not necessarily be the case in Illustration by AJAI SPELLMAN / Daily Titan that was originally designed for men present day. Smoking was popularized among women in the 1920s when advertisers set their sights — the cigarette. “When cigarettes were first on the other half of the population. The flapper is the archetypal female smoker. Eventually, advertisers caught coming around … the cigarette wind of this and began creating was designed for women, but as smokers during the 1920s, the smoking … I use them because tobacco ads exclusively for women. time went on, its not about fashion evolution of smoking continues they are healthier … no tar, no Tobacco companies, such as the anymore ... it’s more of a statement today. Only now, the progression is additives … it’s basically water vapor Lucky Strike brand of cigarettes, of independence (for everyone),” in the product. and nicotine, which is healthier featured women in ads that said Brandon Collins, 23, a political “E-cigs (mechanical cigarettes), for everything but your heart, but, displayed sayings like, “Reach for a science major. I think those are the new thing; (then again), everything will kill you LUCKY instead of a sweet.” Like the evolution of female a lot of people use them to quit nowadays,” Collins said.

dailytitan.com/features 6 March 8, 2012 DETOUR Rolling Stone’s Hit the high notes 15 Greatest Stoner Songs Marijuana is credited in love he is with burning sticky to the birth of many green leaves, and he is not the only (2011) one indulging. musical chart toppers Since he finds it irresistible nn Broken Bells, “Vaporize”’ to keep “her” all to him, he SHEILA DEL CID nn Birdman and Lil Wayne (feat. Daily Titan spreads “her” goods so others take Daz & Kurupt), “Cali Dro” advantage of her green. There are many artists who have Similar to James, British group nn S.E. Rogie, “Dead Men Don’t provided us with lyrically inclined Musical Youth used slang for the Smoke Marijuana” tunes, especially about smoking. use of pot in their song “Pass the nn Cypress Hill, “I Wanna Get Afroman’s track “Because I Dutchie.” The U.K. would not air High” Got High” is a sad song in the the song on the radio or television marijuana pages, but it is one of because of the drug reference, and nn Fountains of Wayne, “Planet of Weed” the most widely-known songs they changed the lyrics. In Jamaica, about smoking. In first-person, a dutchy is a heavy round pot. nn Kid Cudi, “Marijuana” a marijuana enthusiast voices his Even though the song was downfalls about his experiences released in 1982, “Pass the nn Wayne Smith, “Under the Sleng Teng” from the use of marijuana. He Dutchie” has people enjoying the can’t remember to clean his room, Caribbean sound. nn Brewer & Shipley, “One Toke can’t pass a class, turned to selling “The song has really good the Line” drugs, didn’t go to court, took his rhythm and of course that feel paycheck because he didn’t pay his good reggae vibe,” said Joseph “DJ nn Dillard Hartford Dillard, “Two Hits and the Joint child support, became a paraplegic J-Love” Johnston. “You can chill Turned Brown” from running from the cops, out to it, dance and really vibe out Courtesy of MCT was left masturbating because to it. I myself do not smoke weed, Cypress Hill performs at the 2012 Cypress Hill Smokeout in San Bernardino, California on March 3rd, 2012. For over a decade n , “Don’t Bogart n Little Feat he couldn’t function to have sex, but I like that song.” medical marijuana advocate, B-real, has hosted the annual festival. That Joint, My Friend” lost his family, admits messing up Black Sabbath also supplied nn Ben Harper, “Burn One his entire life and for that reason listeners with “Sweet Leaf,” which other artist, Hendrix used “Purple songs. I love classic rock and reggae.” Haze.’ I would expect more Bob Down” he is sleeping on the sidewalk all is another trendy song. The band Haze” as slang for purple cannabis. Whether people smoke or not, Marley though,” said nonsmoker “because he got high.” plays homage to marijuana. Nonetheless, the song is all the they have heard at least one of Cal State Fullerton graduate, nn Black Sabbath, “Sweet Leaf” Released in the generation of Like the Musical Youth group, rage, even Apple and Pepsi have these songs and enjoyed them. Corey Hinkle. nn Fats Waller, “You’re a Viper” free love and experiments, Rick Sabbath used a play on words. used it in their commercials. “I don’t really talk to my These songs are universal. James expresses his intimacy with They used “Sweet Leaf” as the title “The list can indeed go on stoner friends about what kind People don’t have to smoke to nn Peter Tosh, “Legalize it” “Mary Jane.” Not referring to a and referenced how he loves ganja. forever,” said Anaheim resident, of music they listen to while enjoy this playlist. From Snoop nn Bob Marley & The Wailers, woman but referring to marijuana, The song “Purple Haze” by Jimi Elena Caceres. “I’d honestly have they’re smoking, but I wouldn’t be Dogg to The Steve Miller Band, “Kaya” also known as Mary Jane. He Hendrix is one of the most iconic to say that ‘Pass The Dutchie’ and surprised if anything from that list the list of iconic songs about shows his devotion about how songs about smoking. Like the ‘Purple Haze’ have to be my favorite is one of them, especially ‘Purple smoking can go on forever. Anaheim gets dank with its expo honoring Mary Jane Guests are able to and there will even be a “420” kind of drugs or any sort of parties Doctors will be in attendance Fliers and posters have made their medical marijuana dispensaries receive medical cards smoking section. That’s right, supporting drugs.” providing medical cards as well. way around the Cal State Fullerton and Ogunrinu feels that expos and for pot from doctors attendees at the Kush Expo can The Kush Expo is known as a bit Students like Ryan Gilbert, 20, campus and around Orange County, conventions supporting drug use smoke weed on site of a party. There are live concerts, an accounting major, feel there promoting the event. should be banned altogether. It is no secret some college a resting lounge that includes should be stricter regulations on “They should stop putting up “I think it should be banned in ANGEL MENDOZA Daily Titan students smoke marijuana for fun or massage chairs, food and a full medical cards. all those signs of bud and cannabis California and the United States,” medical reasons, but some students liquor bar. There is even a “Hot “I think you should go to the everywhere where kids can see he said. “It’s really giving a bad The Kush Expo is one of the like Sam Ogunrinu, 20, a health Kush Girl Contest,” where girls doctor and say I have such and it,” said Edgar Cornejo, 19, a influence to the younger people of Golden State’s biggest medical science major, aren’t planning get on stage and a vote decides the such problem, and (then) they chemistry and German double the community. marijuana shows. Though dates are on attending the event and don’t winner. First place gets $500 and a should give you a prescription to major. “It becomes something to When dates are announced, yet to be announced for 2012, the support the use of marijuana. gravity vortex (a portable smoking go to a certain doctor and get your buy. We’re consumers. If we see tickets will be $11 online and $15 expo will be held at the Anaheim “I don’t think I’m going to go,” device), second place gets $300 own medical card. So I think it something on a billboard or sign, at the door. Guests must be at Convention Center. Hundreds of said Ogunrinu. “I don’t do drugs and a gravity vortex, third place should be stricter to get medical we’ll buy it.” least 18 years of age to attend the booths will be on display, there and marijuana is supposed to be gets $200 and a gravity vortex, marijuana,” said Gilbert. The Kush Expo has been under medical marijuana show. will be free giveaways, dispensaries illegal. I support marijuana being and fourth and fifth place each get Needless to say, it’s a big event scrutiny by the city of Anaheim For more information, visit will be giving away free coupons illegal. I’m not interested in any a gravity vortex. in Anaheim. because of its stance against KushExpo.com. Actors taking a drag adds character to their characters Despite the known Stone is one of many women portrayed two brothers from The Boondock Saints of Your Love”), but you can see him pressure from Washington, Hawke’s health risks, a cigarette in film who smokes in a seductive way. smoking cigarettes after leaving church, smoking a cigar with shifty eyes and you character finally gives in and smokes the The 1967 film The Graduate features a it really shows how “bad ass” these can tell that he is beginning to mistrust, pipe of marijuana, only to find out it’s in hand give a seductive young Dustin Hoffman being seduced by characters are. and is ultimately thinking of whacking, been laced with PCP. Hawke’s character or tough essence on film an older Mrs. Robinson with cigarette in Clint Eastwood plays Blondie in the someone in his gang. hallucinates just like Ice Cube’s character hand. In that scene, Hoffman nervously 1966 spaghetti Western The Good, the Aside from smoking cigars and does, but in a much less comedic fashion. JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ says, “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to Bad and the Ugly and has a cigar in cigarettes, there are Hollywood Lastly, and maybe most peculiar because Daily Titan seduce me... Aren’t you?” his mouth throughout the “Mexican portrayals of smoking other things, it is in a children’s movie, is the animated Also, Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, standoff” at the end of the film. Blondie like recreational drugs. For instance, in Disney film, Alice in Wonderland. While “What are you going to do, charge who is smoking a cigarette right before doesn’t flinch, nor does he drop his cigar, the movie Friday, Ice Cube and Chris on her adventure, Alice runs into a me with smoking?” asks actress Sharon her and John Travolta’s character as he shoots the bad guy, Angel Eyes, Tucker’s characters, Craig and Smokey, caterpillar who is smoking hookah. The Stone, as she lights a cigarette in the compete in the “twist” dance contest into a grave. smoke marijuana on the porch. Smokey caterpillar proceeds to smoke himself interrogation scene in Basic Instinct. This at Jack Rabbit Slims. Thurman is also A more subtle smoking scene involves convinces Craig to smoke marijuana and into a butterfly in front of Alice’s very scene is arguably the most famous scene featured on the posters and the cover art Robert De Niro in the 1990s critically ends up hallucinating. eyes. involving smoking in film history. The for the VHS, DVD and Blu Ray of Pulp acclaimed organized crime film Much like Friday, in the 2001 film Definitely an iconic smoking scene glamour of Hollywood and smoking go Fiction with cigarette in hand. Goodfellas. De Niro’s character, Jimmy Training Day, Denzel Washington’s that people of all ages can remember. hand in hand. Where women are shown to be Conway, is a member of the local mob, character tries to convince Ethan Despite worldwide knowledge of Smoking has taken all types of forms smoking in a seductive way, men in film and in one of the more famous scenes Hawke’s character to smoke marijuana. its health effects, smoking has always, in Hollywood’s biggest films — from are shown with an edge to them — a it features De Niro smoking at the bar. Washington’s character is a senior and probably always will be, a sign of seduction, to giving a character an edge bit rough around the edges. From Al Nothing is said or heard (except for the narcotics officer that can help Hawke’s sexuality or masculinity in film — or at and even for recreational drug use. Pacino smoking cigars in Scarface to the background track of Cream’s “Sunshine character advance in his career. Through least a staple in pop culture.

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http://www.dailysudoku.com/ 8 March 8, 2012 SPORTS: NON-SMOKING SECTION PREVIEW | Men’s Hoops DTBRIEFS Tall task WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Titans Fall in First Round ahead The No 1. seeded Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Katrina Santiago, the Big West Player of the Year, finished with a game- high of 31 points Tuesday night, helping to defeat the No. 8 seeded Cal State Fullerton Titans women’s basketball team 71- for CSUF 53 in the first round of the 2012 Big West Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament at the Mott Gym in San Luis Obispo, Titans will enter the Calif. Cal Poly SLO had three players in double figures. tournament as No. 2 The loss ended the Titans’ season on a three-game losing seed in Big West streak, and they finished the year with an 11-19 overall record and a 4-12 record in Big West Conference play. BLAKE FOGG CSUF senior guard Megan Richardson was the leading Daily Titan scorer for the Titans with 13 points, 3.2 points below her season average. The conference games, the Junior guard Alicya Crisp was the second-highest scoring seedings, the awards — all that Titans player with nine points. doesn’t matter when you have Though the Titans lost, Richardson was selected Monday the chance to play in the NCAA to the All-Big West Conference First Team for the third tournament. The Big West consecutive season. Tournament starts Thursday. Richardson has become the second Titan in the school’s CSUF got an early start on March ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan history to be named to the All-Big West First Team three times, Madness with the big win against The Titans will have to reach the Big West championship game if they are to potentially face Casper Ware and LBSU for the third time. joining All-American Genia Miller, who was named to the rival Long Beach State last Saturday. squad in the 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons. Can they continue their success If they advance, then their likely in conference? It certainly hurt them. Now, there is no way LBSU is Brief by Ajai Spellman against their own conference for a opponent will be UC Santa Barbara. CSUF’s RPI is so low, you have to go going to lose. The team is too good. possible birth in the NCAA tournament? The Gauchos are a “tournament” team. to Hades to find them on the list. It’s their own fault if they bow out. The Titans have a difficult task The past two seasons they always The Big West Conference doesn’t They have three first-team all-Big in their first matchup against UC found a way to nip past Long Beach and want LBSU to lay an egg in the West players on their team. Actually, BASEBALL Irvine. UCI runs the pick-and-roll so advance to the NCAA Tournament. tournament like they have been they’re minus one. USC Ends Titan Win Streak well for a young team and can score The Gauchos are led by first- doing the past two years. Larry Anderson suffered a sprained in bunches like they did against the team all-conference and potential If they do, they’ll have opposing fans knee against CSUF, and it’s unlikely The USC Trojans baseball team ended the No. 19 Cal Titans twice this year. NBAer Orlando Johnson. chanting “N-I-T,” and that’s where I he’ll play this weekend. State Fullerton Titans’ seven-game winning streak Tuesday In their first meeting, CSUF was He’s the conference leading think they’ll land if they do fall. They should find a way as the night. The Trojans defeated the Titans 7-4. up by 30 and UCI whittled the scoring and he is certainly a handful. People point at their nonconference saying goes. It’s the last year the The Trojans carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning, but margin down to two possessions late. D.J. Seeley played well against him, schedule but I don’t think that’s 49ers are going to be this good the Titans’ Ivory Thomas ended the no-hit bid, which led to In their next game, UCI had a and he still scored 28 points against enough to get them in. They for quite awhile. They have that CSUF scoring four times on four hits in the inning. double-digit lead on CSUF and gave the Titans last time they played. played the best teams in the college bitter taste in their mouth watching In the bottom of the sixth inning, the Trojans scored two it up for a loss. The Titans will lose this one. basketball, but they didn’t win. UCSB cut down the nets for two runs after the Titans brought in relief pitcher Tyler Peitzmeier The difference in those two games The Gauchos did them in at the Now you’re saying, “Wait, what years straight. with the bases loaded. was Omondi Amoke. In the first Thunderdome Jan. 5 and were unlucky about Pitt and Xavier?” I say, where As for the Titans, they have In the seventh inning, Willie Kuhl came in to relieve Peitzmeier. game he had career numbers with 23 not to win at Titan Gym Feb. 4. are those two now? a shooter’s chance, literally and The Trojans scored three runs on four hits off Kuhl to take points and 17 rebounds. The latter was the game when Pitt is 13th in the Big East and figuratively. This team can score. a 5-4 lead over the Titans. He dominated the painted area Kwame Vaughn went wild and scored Xavier finished third in a mid- All five starters (Seeley, Vaughn, The Trojans ended up scoring a total of five runs during that night and the only reason UCI 37 points. major conference. Amoke, Orane Chin and Isiah the seventh inning, which brought their run total to seven. got back into the game was because Before that, the Titans were dead They don’t look like great wins Umipig) garnered Big West honors The Trojans’ pitching held the Titans to one run in the they couldn’t miss an outside shot. and losing by 12 points in the first half. now. I want LBSU in the NCAA and all of them (exception to Amoke eighth inning in the loss. An injury caused him to miss the If the Titans have any chance to win if they don’t win the conference and maybe Chin) didn’t get on the The loss leaves the Titans with an 8-4 record. They will be next meeting and it showed. this game, they have to limit Johnson. tournament. I really do. list because they can play defense. on the road this weekend to face No. 5 Texas A&M Aggies in The Titans had no presence down That’s a given. They are a top-64 (or is it 68 Anyone of them can take control of a a three-game series. low until Sedrick Martin entered the Seeley will be back on him and now?) team in the country if you game, and that’s what the Titans will The Aggies are currently on a seven-game winning streak. game and got them back in it. expect him to not have any big think about it. need if they want to go dancing. This will be the third ranked opponent the Titans will play If the Titans can play good defense, scoring games like he did against But the old guys in NCAA The Titans play Thursday at this season. hedge the ball handler on screens and Long Beach. selection committee like screwing 2:30 p.m. at the Honda Center in Brief by Sepideh Nia not have an off night shooting, then Speaking of Long Beach, how upset smaller teams, and I won’t be Anaheim. Ditch your class if you they should win easily. are they that it didn’t go undefeated surprised if they overlook them. want to watch this game.