The rate of smoking in higher learning institutions has increased at a high rate, and has caused many health problems to the students involved. In order to ensure free smoking campuses, various measures have been adopted to prevent the rate of smoking in campuses in order to reduce the recognized health hazards associated with smoking. Total ban of smoking including all public policies, health and safety regulations are put in place to prohibit tobacco smoking in campuses. Smoking ban is enforced in various settings and included in many jurisdictions to ensure that students are protected from health effects of smoking (Harrar, 2009). The main purpose of this paper is to find out, describe the major causes of tobacco smoking in campuses, and come up with approaches that can be used to prevent smoking in campuses and other public places. This research will focus on the various effects that are associated with tobacco smoking and the rules that are set forth to control and ban its use. Most of these rules are comprehensive and logical approaches to defining health, physical, environmental hazards of tobacco smoking.
According to Harris (2009), smoking ban in campuses has greatly reduced the number of young smokers. This is of course a good move, bearing in mind that smoking of tobacco is unhealthy and results in some cancers
Effects of smoking ban on campuses
Implementing smoking bans in campuses has resulted to numerous positive changes in the living styles of campus students. The main rationale for this is to put off the smokers from continuing with this unhealthy trend. Additionally, it serves to protect the nonsmokers acquiring this unhealthy behavior and from getting the dangerous health effects of excessive exposure to second...
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Smoking is not a good thing. School is a place to educate people, so it should try its best to avoid bad things. In my opinions, school can even be described as a perfect place on itself. It should teach students that smoke is not good. I think what school should do is not only tell students that smoke is bad but also needs to become a smoke-free campus. I know there are many disadvantages on smoking. School must know it, so it should help students to avoid it. I think the school teaches students smoke is bad but on the other hand, it provides smoking areas on campus. They conflict. Now, school is trying to do the exact thing. Not only tell students smoke is bad but also trying to implement the policy. As what many faculties in this college told me that they are trying to help me to success, school is trying to help students to success on smoke this one of many aspects. I believe a really good student does not smoke and most of smokers are not very good people. Smoking and good people have certain connection. If talk about smoke, what I can react the first is it can threaten people's healths or could even caus...
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In the year 2000, smoking has fallen out of public favour and is seen as an undesirable social and physical health hab...
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and worldwide (Centers for Disease Control, 2013, World Health Organization, 2008). Tobacco cessation counseling is a vital component of any public health strategy seeking to decrease mortality, disease and costs associated with smoking. To that end, the Healthy People 2020 Tobacco Use Objectives cover three main areas: reducing tobacco use, instituting health system changes, and creating social and environmental changes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). Objective TU-10 falls under the category of health system changes as it seeks to open doors for patients to make quit attempts and to pursue tobacco cessation methods by increasing tobacco cessation counseling by physicians and other health care providers.
Each year 440,000 people die, in the United States alone, from the effects of cigarette smoking (American Cancer Society, 2004). As discussed by Scheraga & Calfee (1996) as early as the 1950’s the U.S. government has utilized several methods to curb the incidence of smoking, from fear advertising to published health warnings. Kao & Tremblay (1988) and Tremblay & Tremblay (1995) agreed that these early interventions by the U.S. government were instrumental in the diminution of the national demand for cigarettes in the United States. In more recent years, state governments have joined in the battle against smoking by introducing antismoking regulations.
It is shocking to know that there are about ten people who die from smoking every single minute, and nobody seems to have any idea about it. Indeed, there is “a growing gap between the real world and the academy” since people are more intellectual about things that are irrelevant to the real life and are ignorant of things that are imperative to live in the real world (Orr 310). Did you know that there are over four hundred thousand deaths caused by cigarettes and tobacco each year in the U.S. alone? That makes it about five million deaths worldwide each year, according to “Statistics about Smoking.” Smoking is notorious for causing avoidable diseases and deaths, and yet not many institutions have develop an appropriate system to prevent cigarette and tobacco from killing millions each year. For instance, all universities promote health and wellness and many claim to be substance-free, yet they do not restrict the selling of cigarettes and tobacco in campus stores or smoking on campus. People are dying, thousands are getting hooked, and a whole population is being affected, hence it‘s urgent that a university aims to educate students to combat smoking. The ideal student will learn the immediate and long-term affects of what cigarette can do to himself and others around him, to resist peer pressure, and be capable of recognizing and resisting advertisement and media ploys. In order to achieve this, the university must provide a curriculum that includes classes such as Anatomy, Smoking Biology with seminars, Media Effects, History of Smoking, Tobacco Industry 101, and DARE with community service.
In current events, a huge issue among state and city lawmakers all over the country is the debate over whether or not smoking should be banned in public places. Many argue that allowing people to smoke in public places proposes serious health risks for innocent bystanders. Though the health risks are high, many still oppose the proposal of such laws. Business owners presiding over such establishments as bars and restaurants worry that the smoking bans will severely hurt their revenues if passed. While this is an understandable concern, the health of our communities citizens is much more important than the loss of a handful of customers for businesses.
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Almost everywhere you turn on a campus that allows smoking there are cigarette buts, on the ground, on the path ways and in the flower beds. This kind of littering is bad for three reasons. First it looks bad, it’s bad for the environment, and it promotes more litter. On campuses that allow smoking any observer can tell you allowing smoking is a bad idea. Cigarettes are all over. One professor observed a student dropping a cigarette but right outside a door to a building that had a sign saying no smoking within 20 ft of building. Littering cigarette buts on the ground is detrimental to the environment. The hundreds of chemical compounds that are in cigarettes seep out when it rains and they get into the water system and harm fish and fresh water turtles. Many ecosystems are damaged because of Cigarettes we must protect our Environment. Finely cigarettes litter causes more litter. Many people are more likely to keep a campus clean if it starts out clean but if there is tons of cigarettes on the ground people are more likely to just dump their trash on the ground. This is also another harm to the environment. When people smoke on a campus it is inconsiderate to non smokers who have to be on that campus for their classes and cannot get away smoking should not be allowed on campus because non smokers should not have to put up with smoke and the mess that comes with it. This quote from a sign in