Sunday, July 24, 2016

TOBACCO FREE CAMPUS

During my ten mile urban hike close to home in Chicago yesterday, I passed by the elementary school that my daughter attended from Kindergarten through fifth grade. I saw a sign that stopped me in my tracks. The sign appears to be brand new.  I can imagine the parents of the kindergarteners arriving next September, the 8th grade CLASS OF 2025.  What will they think? Will they think that this sign was posted because smoking was ubiquitous at this school?  When my daughter attended this school I hardly saw any of the elementary school kids chewing tobacco or smoking.  Not a cigarette, not a pipe, not a cigar.  I never even saw someone vaping. (Of course, vaping had not been invented yet when my daughter started kindergarten. Besides the sign does not prohibit vaping as there is no tobacco used with that system.) I graduated from grade school in 1969.  We were not the beneficiary of such a sign. And yet, I never saw anyone smoking on my 'campus' at the William L. Buck Elementary School on Horton Avenue in Valley Stream.  Back then, smoking was actually a popular activity among the adult population. Smoking never really took off among us elementary school kids. We were too busy trading and flipping baseball cards. And yet, I never once, saw any child or adult smoking anywhere on that 'campus.' Not only is BIG GOVERNMENT harmful, it is also silly.
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47 years after I graduated 6th grade from William L Buck School - The school looks the same from the outside.  I wonder if that school now finds it necessary to post signs advising all that it is Tobacco Free. Somehow I managed to avoid all tobacco products without similar warning signs within ten feet of the monkey bars. How ever did I manage?
ten mile urban hike in the early afternoon


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four mile urban hike in the late afternoon

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I squeezed in another 30 minutes on the elliptical machine from 11:30AM to Midnight
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Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Nabisco - Ritz Crakers, 15 Crackers 240 30 14 3 315 3
Creamy - Peanut Butter 300 13 25 11 221 5
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal - Blueberries & Cream 390 78 6 9 510 33

930 121 45 23 1,046 41
L U N C H
Sweet Potato Mashed Potatoes 200 46 0 4 80 14
Meatballs with Cheese 599 27 30 54 1,935 3
Mashed Potatoes With Ham 300 30 12 14 876 0

1,099 103 42 72 2,891 17
D I N N E R
Double Luck - Sweet Peas 280 53 0 14 1,330 14
Read 4 Bean Salad 300 65 0 5 1,500 40
Double Luck - Corn 245 46 4 7 1,260 21

825 164 4 26 4,090 75
S N A C K S
Kind - Dark Chocolate Chunk Bar, 2 bar 300 50 9 6 130 18

300 50 9 6 130 18
Totals 3,154 438 100 127 8,157 151
Your Daily Goal 3,543 443 118 178 2,300 132
Remaining 389 5 18 51 -5,857 -19
Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
*You've earned 1,613 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 212.1 lbs in 5 weeks     
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Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
131 893
65 443
30 450

   
Daily Total / Goal 226 / 30 1,786 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 1134 / 210 8,263 / 4,130             
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The process by which one inhales vapour from a personal vaporiser, or e-cig

Used instead of 'smoking' to describe the action of someone sucking on the business end of an e-cig 
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e-cigarette

[ee-sig-uh-ret]
noun

a device used to simulate the experience of smoking, having a cartridge with a heater that vaporizes liquid nicotine instead of burning tobacco. Also called electronic cigarette, Informal, e-cig
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SINCE VAPING (SMOKING AN E-CIGARETTE) DOES NOT USE TOBACCO - I TAKE IT THE LITTLE KIDS IN KINDERGARTEN CAN USE THIS PRODUCT?  Certainly their parents waiting on the playground to pick up their kids after school will be able to use e-cigarettes, yes?  Why have this tobacco-free sign?  Why was there not a sign proclaiming that this was an alcohol free zone? Or a drug-free zone? I looked, but I didn't even see the my favorite stupid sign proclaiming a gun-free zone. (I may have to look closer next time - gun-free signs are a favorite among school administrators)

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