What students think of the lingering campus-wide smoking ban
CU Board of Regents member Michael Carrigan recently suggested making CU a tobacco-free campus to promote a healthy lifestyle; students have mixed opinions about the proposed ban.
A group of smoking CU students had something to say against the measure.
“College is about making decisions,” said Danny Sax, 20,a junior English major. “Let us make [decisions] for ourselves.”
Some smokers said that if CU does not want cigarette butts all over the campus, they should have designated areas for smoking and more places to put out the cigarettes.
Smokers think that if CU prohibits smoking on campus they will more than likely have students running late to class because they are trying to find a place to smoke.
When asked what CU would do with the money that they saved from butt clean up, Carrigan answered in an interview with The Campus Press that the money could possibly go to health care for the student smokers.
Many non-smoking students agree with Carrigan’s proposal.
“When I walk to class during passing period, people are smoking and I have to breathe it in while I am walking behind them,” said Skye Smith, 20, a junior political science and English major. “They also litter. I mean, this is Boulder.”
There is currently a survey on CU Connect asking what students have to say about the possible ban.
When asked if CU had the right to stop smoking, Smith felt that the proposal to ban was justified.
“It is their campus,” Smith said.
Many smokers feel that they want their voices to be heard.
“My pursuit of happiness is being infringed,” Sax said.
Contact Campus Press Staff Writer Zach Keller at zach.keller@thecampuspress.com.
