2008 Woodie Awards
EDITORIAL: Beware smokers and non smokers of decreasing rights
Issue date: 3/31/08 Section: Opinion
A smoking ban is being considered by Volunteer State Community College's administration.
It is possible that smoking could be completely banned from campus or only allowed in parking lots.
If smoking is legal, why are we beginning to see it eliminated?
Restaurants separated smokers from non-smokers. Then state governments completely banned it.
Employers send employees far away from their buildings where customers can't see them.
Vol State even designated certain areas for smokers to smoke.
It seems like discrimination.
"You certain people go here while all these other people get to go here."
If smokers are smoking outside where non-smokers can avoid the smoke, then smokers should be left alone.
It is a choice given to American people whether they want to smoke or not. Why give people a choice and then take it away?
Administration is encouraging students to visit the Vol State blog and give their opinions on the issue.
Our question is, will these opinions be taken into consideration when the administration makes their final decision?
There are many negative health effects to smoking. Smokers know this. It is still their choice and many still choose to smoke.
Smoking is on its way to being eliminated from many public places.
Smokers should show their appreciation to facilities that have not banned it, like Vol State, by not littering their cigarette butts. They can also obey the designated signs around campus to show administration that they respect that.
Maybe if smokers meet the administration half way, people's right won't be taken away.
Non-smokers should consider what could be taken away next.
It's like Pandora's Box.
People know cigarettes exist, they will smoke them even if the government tries to prevent it.
It makes sense to let other races coexist, why not smokers?
It is possible that smoking could be completely banned from campus or only allowed in parking lots.
If smoking is legal, why are we beginning to see it eliminated?
Restaurants separated smokers from non-smokers. Then state governments completely banned it.
Employers send employees far away from their buildings where customers can't see them.
Vol State even designated certain areas for smokers to smoke.
It seems like discrimination.
"You certain people go here while all these other people get to go here."
If smokers are smoking outside where non-smokers can avoid the smoke, then smokers should be left alone.
It is a choice given to American people whether they want to smoke or not. Why give people a choice and then take it away?
Administration is encouraging students to visit the Vol State blog and give their opinions on the issue.
Our question is, will these opinions be taken into consideration when the administration makes their final decision?
There are many negative health effects to smoking. Smokers know this. It is still their choice and many still choose to smoke.
Smoking is on its way to being eliminated from many public places.
Smokers should show their appreciation to facilities that have not banned it, like Vol State, by not littering their cigarette butts. They can also obey the designated signs around campus to show administration that they respect that.
Maybe if smokers meet the administration half way, people's right won't be taken away.
Non-smokers should consider what could be taken away next.
It's like Pandora's Box.
People know cigarettes exist, they will smoke them even if the government tries to prevent it.
It makes sense to let other races coexist, why not smokers?
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