Smoking Should Be Banned On Campus

So how does Framingham State enforce these rules? “We have a very laid back approach to enforcement,” Hofrenning says:

What our hope has been is that everybody takes responsibility for enforcing it. If you see somebody smoking on campus, just go up to them and letting them know that we are a

tobacco-free campus and that it’s against the policy to smoke. And usually they’ll put the campus looking for people. Campus police is not going to go and issue tickets. But we’re really pleased with the way the policy has worked. I don’t think we can ever expect to be a 100%, no one ever smokes campus, because it is an addiction, and it is hard to quit. But it’s pretty amazing how effective [the policy] has been…No student has been brought up judicially for smoking.
So it seems that while student smoking is for the most part under control, Hofrenning adds that “actually the bigger problem is faculty and staff.
Because they are people who have smoked for 20 or 30 years. The have no intention of quitting.”

Clearly, then, the best way to end smoking on the Framingham State campus is prevention. In order to aid in prevention, we must understand the exact climate of new smoking
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