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Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Banning Smoking on School Premises



Hey fellow students, this is a post by Courtney Wright. Many pro-nicotine students believe that the shelters on campus are to solve the issue of second-hand smoke. The rationale is really that the school is trying to make wide open spaces smoke-free in order to better promote healthy behaviors.

Still you will find students who don’t use the shelters are either standing out around them or still walking around campus with lit cigarettes. So non-smokers are still forced to deal with the smell and health risks of walking through clouds of smoke.

If the school was to just ban smoking anywhere on school property this problem would be solved.  The school should start to provide more aids to people to help them try to quit as well. Providing nicotine patches, gum, as well as prescriptions from the health center for things like Champax and Zyban would help reinforce a smoke-free environment. 

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