Century college Should Not Ban Smoking on Campus

John Nwabugwu

Fue Yang

Shivana Maharaj

Century college Should Not Ban Smoking on Campus.

When colleges redirect their major focus to unnecessary issues pertinent to them, they tend to loss focus on their mission. In view of the aforementioned, Century College should not ban smoking on campus. The choice to smoke or not to smoke should be solely individualized and should not be alienated. Banning smoking in a public places like Century College means a total alienation of the fundamental right of the individuals involved as far as the substance been smoked is not illegal. My personal experience attests to this. As a former smoker, I felt so alienated when asked to move farther than I should. I can imagine what life would have been if I was asked to stop smoking in my college. Besides, smoking is not the only perceived so called unhealthy habit to legislate in Century College. I believe it is an act of discrimination to focus just on smoking, leaving behind numerous habits that are also categorized as unhealthy too, likes drinking alcohol. In agreement to the foregoing, Henry Wechsler, PhD, a research fellow with the Harvard School of Public Health asserts that “Alcohol is such a major issue (in college)….’’ Finally, Century College should take cognizance of the rationale why students resort to smoking in the first place. While contributing on this subject to his internet audience, Chris Woolston alerts that students smoke because of stress and boredom. Should Century College ban this stress and boredom relieving activity, what should be the fate of this marginalized group?

A Rebuttal Paragraph

Yes, it makes sense to see smoking as been harmful to health. I however, do not think that focusing our attention on one out of so many health hazards that cloud our college is appropriate. One big question that people who think that smoking should be ban in our Equal Opportunity College should answer is this: To what extent does this multi bidirectional act affects our health than other health precautionary practices? We should understand that every coin has two sides. If this is the case, is it not wise to reconsider banning smoking since it has not been linked to any social vise in our college. Besides, ways of living still remains an individual decision in our society. Therefore changing it will result to nothing but that outbreak of law.