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...kill. "Probably the group with the least amount of people wanting to stop smoking are the teenage and young adult smokers, and that is disturbing for all of us," says Jim R. Giebfried, director of cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health. He said that young adults are the age group least likely to quit, and that...
Furthermore, the principle that students should only have to pay for things they like might have some unwelcome consequences. The line between political, social or artistic activities is easily blurred--could a campus newspaper with a defined editorial position be considered political?--and conditioning the funding of groups on their political status might result in a chilling effect that would eliminate otherwise worthwhile activities. The lawyers for the students also argued that the university should not be allowed to sidestep the case by incorporating the fee as part of tuition, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed might raise questions...
...people love monarchs and princes. If the British were to abolish the monarchy what would become of their tourist trade? Would elderly couples from the Midwest still stand in line to see the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace? Level-headed reasonableness and practicality sometimes advise compromise with imperfect institutions. And as far as imperfect institutions go, the monarchy is a fairly harmless...
...everyone agrees with that line of reasoning. Marc L. Fleischaker, the lawyer for NACS, said the suit isn't about consumers' intelligence or their abilities to shop comparatively, but about misleading the public...
While students have a variety of on-line book vendors to choose from, NACS sued VarsityBooks.com because it was the "most prominent false advertiser," according to Fleischaker...