Smoking should be prohibited on college campus.

Everybody knows the dangerous effects of smoking. It causes different diseases which can lead one’s life to death. A website quitguide.com gives a horrified statistic “Smoking kills approximately half million people per year in U.S. … Of these an estimated 10% are people who die of disease due to secondhand smoke”. Smoking should ban in college campus, because smoking cigarettes is harmful for smoker’s health and it also affect non-smoker too.
Smoking cigarettes is harmful for health. People who smoke are more in danger to get common cold and flu. Smoking cigarettes for many years produce smoker’s cough and bronchitis. It has been establish that smoking cigarettes is the main cause of lung and throat cancer. Women who smoke during pregnancy have greater chance to deliver weak babies who have breathing problem at birth and throughout their lives. Smoking cigarettes destroy smoker’s health.
School is a place of learning. Students comes school to learning. They learn not only from text books but also from surroundings. Smoking in college campus, influence others to smoke. College freshmen are immature, they are affected by smokers. Because, some of them start smoking and rest of them are affected as a secondhand smokers. Non-smokers who suffer asthma or other breathing problems feel uncomfortable and nausea if anybody smokes in front of them. Smokers should have the right to smoke, but it is not reasonable is that right is harmful to others.
School should not privilege any bad habit. In Queens College outside of every buildings have ashtray for smokers. It encourages smokers to smoke and pollute the college campus. So, college authority should not privilege smoker to smoke in campus and make the campus healthier smoke free zone.
Towhidwr Rahman