The Arbiter (Boise State University), 2008-03-13
Author: STEPHEN HELEKER Opinion Writer

Summary:

The Associate Students of Boise State has recently passed legislation that will make BSU a tobacco-free campus. This ban on tobacco will, of course, entail both smoking and smokeless tobacco. A committee has been appointed to oversee the instatement of the new policies.


Gabe Murphy, an ASBSU senator and an opinion writer for The Arbiter has been appointed to be a member on the committee. In his article, "Smoke and gas," he compared the impoliteness of smoking in public to you-know-what. . . .


Should students and faculty really have to wait until they have time to leave campus to smoke? Residence hall students may have to walk across the street to smoke. And what of chewing tobacco, which has far fewer affects on others, but will also be banned?


This policy has good intentions, and I am in favor of the prohibition of tobacco. However, without tobacco being universally banned it will be difficult, if not impossible, to effectively remove it from campus.


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