<p>Just wondering, Umich is going smoke-free this summer. </p>
<p>IDK, why. I mean, hardly anyone smokes. Why do we need to take away something from them?</p>
<p>Doesn't really affect me, but I wouldn't do it.</p>
<p>People smoke like crazy on my campus. I’ve noticed it mostly tends to be the international students, no idea why. I don’t see how they even COULD ban it.</p>
<p>Hardly anyone here smokes? Do you live under a rock?</p>
<p>I am really highly allergic to smoke and heavily asthmatic, so it affects me a lot. I’ll be glad when I can walk to class without having to worry about holding my breath to avoid getting sick. And when I’ll be able to open my window when it’s hot without having to worry about smoke wafting in. I have to keep myself in a goddamn bubble, and it’d be nice to not have to worry about that during the school day at least. The ban they started last year in the restaurants and all that has improved my quality of life SO much and opened up so many employment opportunities that were off limits to me before, I am sure this is just going to make it even better for people.</p>
<p>Smoke bothers me to. I mean, I am not HEAVILY asthmatic but I’ve got a ton of allergies that don’t help my breathing. (By “doesn’t really affect me” in the first post I meant the ban affecting me, I don’t like smoke)</p>
<p>I think you are overdoing it a little. I mean, I hardly see anyone smoking. (I am talk all about outside, of course it should be banned indoors) It is mostly international students though.</p>
<p>I mean, you make it sound like you have to walk through a cloud of toxic smoke every time you go to class… really?</p>
<p>Um, yeah, pretty much. Maybe it’s just the parts of campus I’ve lived on (this year AND last year, last year was worse.) I literally have to hold my breath in different spots throughout campus as I am walking to class, and if I don’t see someone that’s smoking quickly enough to stop breathing and I accidentally inhale, then I am in trouble-- and if I cough half the time people yell at me for “hating.” It’s a bunch of crap. It’s not something I complain about (except people smoking right next to my dorm window) since my allergies are my responsibility to manage, but yeah, I’ll say that it’s going to be nice to not have to worry about that so much. The smoking ban hardly makes any difference on UM’s campus to begin with since it doesn’t apply to sidewalks adjacent to public roads. It pretty much just bans smoking on the diag and in the courtyards. </p>
<p>And it’s nice to see all the free resources the university is providing right now to help people who want to quit. I like to think this is a good opportunity for some of the students to take a look at the consequences of their lifestyle in a place where they’ll have the resources to help them make changes if that’s what they choose. It’s none of my business, so I don’t care what they do, but it’s not like I’m not going to admit that it’ll be nice for me to have to worry about my asthma just a little bit less.</p>
<p>Ha, I know what you mean about coughing when you walk by.</p>
<p>Some times I cough to be a dick and be a hater</p>
<p>Some times I actually cough if I get a wiff of it.</p>
<p>But man, I have no idea where you live. I am fine on North, and hardly see it on Central. At least where I frquent.</p>
<p>Lots of people smoke at my school. It’s weird because very few people who live in the dorms seem to (like, I never see people smoking outside the dorms) but I constantly see people smoking on the way to class or chilling on a bench with a cigarette. It seems like mostly the older students smoke, which confuses me. I feel like people rarely start smoking when they’re like 20.</p>
<p>We are going to become a smoke free campus in the Fall. I am pretty cool with it since the smoke bothers me. It is also nice since the businesses in out county are also smoke free.</p>
<p>Last year I lived in EQ, and I am pretty sure people chain smoke on a daily basis right outside all the doors and in the courtyards, we had to keep the windows shut because both my roommate and I were allergic and it was wafting into the room. I don’t have that problem at Newberry, but that particular area of state street is very smokey. There are definitely pockets of it, there are a lot of areas that are better than others about it.</p>
<p>My school bans all smoking indoors and recommends that people don’t smoke within 30 feet of entrances and exits. In practice though, smoking is only prohibited inside buildings, some of which are older and have ashtrays built into the interior walls.</p>
<p>At the school I’m going to in the fall, you can’t smoke within 20 ft of buildings.</p>
<p>I can’t stand the smell of smoke. When you grow up around it and then get away from it, you just can’t be around it as much anymore. You actually learn what clean air is… At least that’s what happened to me and what others have told me happened to them.</p>
<p>At my school you can’t smoke within 20 feet of buildings, but people do it anyway. Doesn’t bother me but I know people it does.</p>
<p>I don’t see why they should ban it. Keep it away from entrances and out of buildings. There aren’t that many people that smoke anyway, just let them do it. The few people that do smoke shouldn’t have to go all the way off campus to do so just because it bothers a few people.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t see how it’s legal for a campus to ban smoking just on it’s own. If the state banned it on campuses, that’s one thing, but isn’t this sort of like a campus banning caffiene or energy drinks or something? Like they’re completely banning something a lot of people are addicted to and yes, is harmful in the long run, but it’s legal and it is a person’s right to use it whether or not it’s a good idea.
I mean I understand that people get irritated by the smoke, but it’s a small minority, the rest have just been raised to disapprove. I just don’t understand the legality of this.</p>
<p>I’m not sure where there is a defensible “right” to smoke. Things that aren’t in the constitution are generally tolerated until they begin infringing on other people (like smoking does), but that doesn’t mean you have a defensible RIGHT to do it. There’s a big difference between being “allowed” and having the “right.” One is legally protected, the other is not. </p>
<p>There could be some kind of court precedent or legislation I am not aware of, but I would guess it’s not illegal to ban it or Michigan wouldn’t be doing it-- I think we can afford lawyers. :P</p>
<p>“pursuit of happiness” maybe?</p>
<p>But then I guess if we could take away alcohol we can do the same for smoking.</p>
<p>Still kinda sucks for smokers though</p>
<p>I am highly allergic to smoke and tobacco and did a happy dance when Michigan businesses went smoke-free. </p>
<p>HOWEVER, I think it is far over the line to make the outdoors smoke-free. I see the pros and cons. What I think we need to do is to heavily fine anyone who throws out their butts on the ground and I think we should give monetary rewards for people that turn in litterers. It’s disgusting. However, overall, you just have to move to the side for people that want to smoke.</p>
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<p>People smoke like crazy on my campus and it is because we are funded by tobacco tycoons. The SGA tried to make it a non-smoking campus and was told by the administration that would not be possible because it would look bad to our funders.</p>
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Agree completely. Smokers smoking outdoors shouldn’t have to further alter their behavior for the .001 % of the population that’s bothered by such a diffuse amount of secondhand smoke.</p>