Freshman Kelsey Rohwer argues that GW should take steps toward becoming a smoke free campus.
Starting today, the University of Kentucky is a tobacco-free place.
Members of the UK community aren’t alone. In 2007, 43 college campuses were smoke-free. Now that number is closer to 60. It’s time for GW to follow suit.
Smoking cigarettes is unlike any other vice. Most vices are exclusive to the perpetrator, but smoking is forced upon others through second-hand smoke, which has become the third leading cause of preventable death, according to studies from the Center for Tobacco Policy Research.
You’re a freshman I advise you to wait a couple years before telling people how the campus should be run. If you don’t like smoking, don’t hang out around smokers that’s what everyone else does and it works fine for them.
Anti smokers, particularly those from “Public Health” should be handled like the “Telephone Sanitizers” were handled in “The Hitcher’s Guide to the Universe”. For much the same reason.
^ Nice ad hominem
Not to mention the fact that GW’s “Campus” is primarily made up of city streets.
Will people walking to the metro after work down 23rd street not be allowed to smoke a cigarette?
I’m a non-smoker, and I still find that concept ridiculous.
Max- I am 3rd year grad student (my program is only 2 years- but because of homelessness- I can’t find that article to comment on- I am still in school) 1. DC Council is considering making publicly owned space smokefree 2. Metro can make the 17 feet that they own from the metro smokefree and they should and I can guarantee that is on my list TO DO 3. Smoke KNOWS no walls! GW undergrads are in a league of their own. They have too much money to be spending on cigarettes . . . studies once showed that college-aged kids would start smoking and then quit- typically trends show that as education increases smoking decreases. So we have a lot of things going on- WE [public health people] want to keep people from smoking and absolutely NO ONE has a RIGHT to smoke. I Choose not to smoke for a reason- and I shouldn’t have to breathe ANYONE’s secondhand smoke- I am OUTSIDE and you said it the streets are close- you can’t sit anywhere without be disgraced by some JERK puffing in your face. I tell them to move even if I came after them. I have NO TOLERANCE. From the lead, cyanide and 100′s of other chemicals they are blowing into the air- OH NO- not in my lungs. Smokers are not a protected class and will not be treated as such. And why do smokers think it is ok to litter? Check it out on campus . . . next time you are perusing around. Bruce, Josh and Sam- you clearly don’t see the bigger picture- this is just not about GW students. This is about the entire GW STAFF- and community. Take some time off of your starbucks and open your eyes.