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Ever since January of 2006, Kennesaw State University has had a restrictive smoking policy. This means that smokers are allowed to use tobacco products but only in designated smoker areas that are provided on the campus (“Smoking”). Recently The A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Service and Research sent out an email, asking the students and faculty whether or not they believed that Kennesaw State University should become a smoke free campus (“KSU”). In response to this increase of the smoking discussion, I conducted my own survey to see how students and faculty at Kennesaw feel about having a smoke free campus.
In a survey of 64 participants 17 out of 64 agreed that the campus should be smoke free, 24 out of the 64 believed that smoking should not be banned, and 23 out of 64 did not care either way. From this information, it would seem that the majority is against the idea of banning smoking from Kennesaw’s campus. The findings of the survey supported my theory that most students would not want a smoke free campus, but I also wanted to see if different demographics had different opinions of the subject matter. It turns out that women and first year students were more opinionated about the subject while men and second year or higher students tended not to care about the matter as much, see figure 1. When I compared the female participants to the male participates, only 28% of the females responded with that they did not care about banning smoking on Kennesaw campus compared to only 45% of males. The same was found for the number of years that a participant was a student at the university. The higher the years of learning the higher the percentage of “I don’t care” answers were given. The reasoning for is unknown, but one possibl...

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...inst it. Even though the survey was on a much smaller scale, the same was found true in the survey I conducted. The trick now is to figure out how to find a good plan to balance out those who use tobacco products and those who do not want to deal with them at all. So far the most favorable solution, is to adjust the current policy with stricter enforcement of the smoking areas so that everyone can be pleased.

Works Cited

"KSU Considers Banning Smoking on Campus." The Sentinel. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr.
2014. http://www.ksusentinel.com/2013/04/16/ksu-considers-banning-smoking-on-campus/

"No Changes to Campus Smoking Policy." The Sentinel. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2014 http://www.ksusentinel.com/2013/07/31/no-changes-to-campus-smoking-policy/. "Smoking Policy." Kennesaw State University. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2014. http://www.kennesaw.edu/ehs/oh_smoking.html. .

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