Get your butts out of the rose bed
Legend’s View
Here at the Legend, we tend to avoid writing stories that involve our beloved Rose Garden.
But the smoking ban has caused some second-hand damages of its own.
If you take the Southern bus to school, you probably already know where smokers have chosen to make their last stand:
Behind the concealing foliage of MCC’s Rose Garden.
How a health initiative can boil down to a turf war is beyond us, but while enforcement is focused on bigger fish to fry, we ask ourselves: can we honestly win a “war on tobacco?”
Those that will quit have quit; Those who still smoke continue to do so in complete disregard to the new policy.
Regardless of how many people quit, the garden is still littered with butts.
Giving the last contingent of smokers an ashtray, so they can at least police their own area, seems like it would nip the problem in the bud.
But a concession like that could illegitimize the health initiative of the ban.
Oddly enough, we have ended up in this soft limbo where a few people smoke, a few people enforce, and everyone else gets to watch the Rose Garden “fall to pot.”
I guess we could send some of the water we use to keep our flowers alive out to the Midwest.
After all, hasn’t the Midwest suffered from the worst drought the nation has seen in decades?
