Is the University of Kentucky truly smoke-free? I don't think so. Laws in dusty books that cannot be enforced do very little to change anything practically. I feel that the only way to truly achieve a smoke-free tomorrow is to work together as a community to change the way we view smoking and value the our lives and the lives of those around us.
I agree that our campus is not as smoke free as we claim to be. Do you think the student body either through an organization or as a whole could have an influence on the enforcement of smoking rules?
ReplyDeleteI definitely think that the student body could change things! Social norms have a great control over how we act in certain places, and by making it socially unacceptable to smoke, we could makes smoking almost nonexistent on the campus. We just have to work together and decide as a community that we won't tolerate smoking
DeleteI think you raise a very interesting point. While UK claims to be a tobacco/smoke free campus, it is clear that this is not the case. What do you believe can be done to change this?
ReplyDeleteI hope that we can educate our peers about how harmful smoking is for all of us. We have to change public opinion.
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