Smoking Should Be Banned On Campus

WCC Students Should Not Smoke on Campus
Modern society has put a label on cigarettes marking them as harmful, dangerous killers. Anyone associated with cigarettes automatically becomes its accomplice and victim. All WCC students should abstain from smoking any type of tobacco products/cigarettes on campus because it makes people around them uncomfortable. Not everybody that attends the WCC campus is accustomed to being around smokers and may feel intimidated by their presence. People passing by locations that are unavoidable, such as bus stops, stairwells, and hallways, feel oppressed when smokers are dwelling there because they are not able to control the situation. The problems caused for the passerby range from inhaling the smoke, and trying hard not to gag because of it, to having to go …show more content…
A lot of times the people that are being influenced are not adults, but underage children, such as the kids that are being taken care of in the daycare center on campus or teenagers attending the community college. Teenagers being easily influenced might be encouraged to try such things after seeing people smoking around campus. This is not just including cigarettes, which are old fashioned, but the newer versions of it like the electronic cigarettes. These modern cigarettes, e-cigs, are more appealing to the eye, come in a variety of flavors and can even be obtained without nicotine. But there is a catch, the chemicals in the liquid that goes inside the e-cigs are just as harmful as cigarettes and the smoke that is exhaled can still cause the same effects that cigarettes have. And because it has not been out to the public for an extended amount of time, the effects of the e-cigs long term has not been determined yet. Not smoking on campus can help prevent the bad influence of young minds, letting them have at least one safe zone in which they are not feeling