Memo Using Toulmin
MEMORANDUM
To: DCCCD President and Board of Directors
From: Adrieanne McClelon, student
Date: July 16, 2013
Subject: Smoking should be banned on campus
Introduction and Recommendation
Second hand smoke affects approximately 126 million nonsmoking Americans per year. 72.2% of students, age 18-24, enrolled in a single campus are not smokers but are at risk of developing lung cancer and other diseases associated with smoking all because of the 24.8% of students who do. Recent studies show that almost 80% of those who ingest secondhand smoke from public smokers have a higher risk of getting respiratory problems than smokers themselves
To decrease different percentages and the fatality rate for nonsmokers, I recommend that we move towards making our DCCCD campuses smoke free environments.
Smoke free campuses would help to promote an over all healthy and clean environment. It will also help in assuring our students that we value their health, as well as the health of our staff.
Benefits and Costs
Smoke free campuses would have a positive effect on overall pollution and help decrease statistics nationwide by:
• Reducing or totally eradicating the danger of putting non-smokers at risk of developing lung and heart problems • Stopping those who are smokers from further increasing their chances of acquiring health problems themselves.
Cost: Making the campuses smoke free will come at little or no cost at all. Grounds workers or those taking engineering, welding, or such classes can volunteer for extra credit to change designated smoking areas with standing ash trays to no smoking signs. If no such classes are offered on the campuses or enough volunteers show up, then I estimate it to take about $400 per campus to have these professionally done.
Conclusion
Making DCCCD campuses smoke free will help to decrease the statistics when it comes to second hand smoke on college campuses, thus possibly helping save our non-smoking
To: DCCCD President and Board of Directors
From: Adrieanne McClelon, student
Date: July 16, 2013
Subject: Smoking should be banned on campus
Introduction and Recommendation
Second hand smoke affects approximately 126 million nonsmoking Americans per year. 72.2% of students, age 18-24, enrolled in a single campus are not smokers but are at risk of developing lung cancer and other diseases associated with smoking all because of the 24.8% of students who do. Recent studies show that almost 80% of those who ingest secondhand smoke from public smokers have a higher risk of getting respiratory problems than smokers themselves
To decrease different percentages and the fatality rate for nonsmokers, I recommend that we move towards making our DCCCD campuses smoke free environments.
Smoke free campuses would help to promote an over all healthy and clean environment. It will also help in assuring our students that we value their health, as well as the health of our staff.
Benefits and Costs
Smoke free campuses would have a positive effect on overall pollution and help decrease statistics nationwide by:
• Reducing or totally eradicating the danger of putting non-smokers at risk of developing lung and heart problems • Stopping those who are smokers from further increasing their chances of acquiring health problems themselves.
Cost: Making the campuses smoke free will come at little or no cost at all. Grounds workers or those taking engineering, welding, or such classes can volunteer for extra credit to change designated smoking areas with standing ash trays to no smoking signs. If no such classes are offered on the campuses or enough volunteers show up, then I estimate it to take about $400 per campus to have these professionally done.
Conclusion
Making DCCCD campuses smoke free will help to decrease the statistics when it comes to second hand smoke on college campuses, thus possibly helping save our non-smoking