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Anonymous 4/25/07 |
DEAR EDITOR,
Some days I wonder if I should be a smoker. Walking to class I inhale enough second-hand smoke on campus that sometimes I feel I should just stand outside and have a cigarette with them. Although I would never do it because it's unhealthy and unattractive, I wonder what my lungs could look like just from walking on campus. I believe that smoking should be banned on campus for many reasons. There have been many controversies over whether we should ban smoking on DMACC campus. Throughout the day, no matter in the morning or night, there are people smoking all the time. People just throw their butts onto the grass even if there is an ashtray 10 steps in front of people. Most of these smokers don't even think about the people around them when they light up a cigarette. There is a rule that all smokers are suppose to follow that smokers should be 25 feet away from the building while smoking. Most smokers do not follow this very simple rule. Most of the time there are smokers right in front of the doors that people walk in and out of at all times. Non-smokers, like myself, hate the fact of walking in and out of buildings and smelling smoke. There have been many times that there are students standing by the door smoking and when I walk by I get the smoke blown into my face. I am a non-smoker, I should not go into my class and smell like a smoker. Our campus is a school and should be treated like any other school. When you walk down the sidewalks, there are cigarette butts laying everywhere. When prospective students come to check out the campus, we do not want to walk them around with these butts on the sidewalk; this looks very unattractive and unprofessional. Just because everyone else is doing it on campus, I'm not going to be one of those people who give in. I believe that it is in the best interest for everyone to ban smoking on DMACC campuses. Eventually smoking is going to be banned in most public places and why not start now to ban it at the college. If there are notices posted around campus with the notice that smoking will be banned, maybe people will think before they light one up at DMACC. Who knows, in the end, maybe this will help people give up the habit. Jessica Halverson DMACC Student |
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