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Discuss “Just butt out: Cigarettes on campus should go up in smoke”

The proposed campus-wide smoking ban, to take full effect by 2010, would be a welcome change to this university — not because it cares about the health of those who choose to smoke, but for the benefit of those who choose not to.

I’ve always been one for personal choice, freedom, liberty, and all that. If the university imposed a ban on free speech or free press, the rest of the student population and I would be outraged. It wouldn’t happen. Here’s the difference between free speech and smoking cigarettes: One has the potential to further the individual and the community in an intellectual, social, and emotional manner, and the other has the potential to give you lung cancer, mouth, nose, and throat cancer, larynx cancer, bladder...

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