Should Smoking Be Allowed In Schools

If a student is found smoking anywhere else, there should be some sort of penalty or punishment to them, including the understanding of how this is negatively affecting their lives. It should be something to scare the smoker, enough to shake that person a little bit. That person should have to do community service around campus by cleaning up cigarette butts to make the campus look cleaner. Also, a series of The Real Cost commercials can be shown. On the other hand, the approach can be taken of raising awareness instead of penalizing the smokers. Yes, there would be a fight if the campus started actually enforcing the rules, but isn’t that what rules are meant to do – stop people from doing an unwanted action? It is common knowledge that smoking cigarettes leads to lung cancer, so, why not raise awareness of lung cancer attracting those who
The students would need to make new routines, Sodexo workers will need to find new places to smoke on their time off, and teachers will need to make time in between their busy schedule to walk more than 25 feet from a building to smoke. If the Residential Advisors were to get involved, each of them could take a shift to advocate for the non-smoking policy by sitting near the doors of each building to look for those who are not listening to the rules. This world would have more fresh air and healthier students. The smoking poles would be placed far from the various buildings making it harder for those who wish to smoke to remain near any buildings. Posters would be hanging on the smokers poles and ash trays in this perfect little world, explicitly describing the harmful effects and reminding these people of what is happening to their bodies on the inside. From the implemented policies, the world would be healthier and cleaner, especially for the