Smoking
The Problem-Solution Essay Sample
|[Introduction engages reader] | Landu Kalemba is a student at the University of Wyoming |
| |(UW), and he, like many other students, smokes. Since he has live in the dorms, he has had to find a |
| |place where he can smoke. He is just one of the many students gathered outside any of the residence |
| |halls smoking together. The university provides students with a room, a bed, and a meal plan, but many |
| |students also need a place to smoke where they can avoid the harsh weather conditions. Although smoking |
| |is legal for people over 18 years of age, student smokers who live in the dorms are as surprised as I was|
| |to discover that smokers tend to have fewer rights that other citizens. The university has a |
| |responsibility to offer students who smoke a safe, convenient place to smoke |
|[Thesis statement] |"Nowadays, smoking- is something- that may not be completely accepted in our society, and against it, a |
| |culture and atmosphere in which smoking is widely seen as a socially unacceptable and unhealthy habit, |
| |have been created" (National Center on Addiction, 1996). However, according to the results of the survey |
| |I conducted, 8% of students at UW smoke. At UW, and at many other schools in the U.S., there are strict |
|[Background] |smoking limitations (American Lung Association, 1997; Kansas State University, 1994). A smoking ban in |
| |the UW dormitories was supported by an
|[Introduction engages reader] | Landu Kalemba is a student at the University of Wyoming |
| |(UW), and he, like many other students, smokes. Since he has live in the dorms, he has had to find a |
| |place where he can smoke. He is just one of the many students gathered outside any of the residence |
| |halls smoking together. The university provides students with a room, a bed, and a meal plan, but many |
| |students also need a place to smoke where they can avoid the harsh weather conditions. Although smoking |
| |is legal for people over 18 years of age, student smokers who live in the dorms are as surprised as I was|
| |to discover that smokers tend to have fewer rights that other citizens. The university has a |
| |responsibility to offer students who smoke a safe, convenient place to smoke |
|[Thesis statement] |"Nowadays, smoking- is something- that may not be completely accepted in our society, and against it, a |
| |culture and atmosphere in which smoking is widely seen as a socially unacceptable and unhealthy habit, |
| |have been created" (National Center on Addiction, 1996). However, according to the results of the survey |
| |I conducted, 8% of students at UW smoke. At UW, and at many other schools in the U.S., there are strict |
|[Background] |smoking limitations (American Lung Association, 1997; Kansas State University, 1994). A smoking ban in |
| |the UW dormitories was supported by an