Recently rumors have emerged that ASU plans on banning smoking campus. Some students are disconcerted, but a large portion of students are outraged. For some students smoking is an escape from the everyday stresses that the highly demanding college provides, for some it's just a habitual practice, and for others it is a way to assert their individuality as an adult making their way into the adult world (basically a trend or way to make themselves look cool). Despite anybody's preference, the school is planning on banning smoking on campus. While to some this may seem to some as just another way for ASU to strip students of their free will it isn't all just a negative change. Smoking in and of itself is not a healthy practice and banning it on campus could be a good way to help promote a healthier and all around more productive lifestyle. Without the legal ability to smoke on campus students can be encouraged to drop an otherwise unhealthy addiction and find much more productive ways to spend their free time and get more involved in practices that will improve their life quality. It seems like a stupid rule to enforce on campus but other schools already have no smoking laws and their quality of life has not been diminished in any way. ASU is trying to keep itself as a quality institution and truly help improve the quality of experience for its students. My argument may not be popular but it sounds like a good idea to me.
Sources
- Ask students around campus about their opinion
- Schools that have no smoking on campus check their statistics about students' quality of life
- Talk to the school Administrators
- Ask professors their opinions on the change
- Statistics on how smoking affects students' health
- Ask around about how cigarettes affect littering on campus
- Read about why ASU is banning smoking on campus
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