The Importance Of Smoking In College

Quitting smoking, is harder, and more dangerous than quitting meth. This is a fact that is hard to believe considering that the CDC’s studies show 18% of people in the US smoke. Not only is smoking on (and off) college campuses annoying to those who have to put up with it, but it’s also profoundly costly, both financially and physically. Just between us, on the commute from my car to class every day I pass by a number of people standing right in front of the doors to the school. Evading the smoke and hoping I don’t contract some sort of second hand lung cancer is usually always on my mind. Not really, but I think you get the idea. Although I usually don’t do that, I do find the scent of cigarette smoke to be obnoxious, and if I were to stand outside of the sets of double doors for an extended period of time, I would start to develop a head ache. I might also start to develop a head ache dealing with an irritable student or teacher who …show more content…
Kids going to college are now experiencing freedom to do what they want to do, which is mostly why they smoke, drink, or do drugs. They conform to the peer pressure, because that’s what “cool kids do”. But why let them? College boards have no moral obligation to give their students “the right to cancer”. Those who propose absolute freedom will propose that it’s “my body, my right”, but according to this free country we live in it’s illegal to kill yourself. So why should we force help onto those that use a knife, but not to those who use a carcinogen? Banning these cancer sticks will never happen in America as a whole, but helping students live a smoke free life should be promoted on college campuses, as much as good academics and being a “well-rounded individual” is. What good is any of that if you’re dead? I mean let’s be real, what student wouldn’t give up smoking for a pool of