Smoking in a Campus Should Be Banned

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Smoking in Campus Should be banned Recently, a number of colleges across the country, especially Indonesia prohibit the students to smoke in campus. As we know that smoking is one of the leading causes of death and it can decrease the quality of people’s life. Campuses are a place that we use for study and encourage the students to live healthy not a place for smoking. Most of the students, especially men, do smoking in campus without paying attention to the impact of smoking on their health and the environment. Smoking in campus should be banned because it can decrease the quality of people’s life, cause pollution, and cause a certain kind of disease. In my opinion, smoking can decrease the quality of people’s life. It means that by doing smoking, the smokers have shortened their life longevity. According to research, smokers will suffer from side effects such as insomnia, shortness of breath and agitation almost every day. Another case, smoking can cause pollution and environmental problems. Campus is a place for studying but if the students smoke around the area, it will be great influence on the campus atmosphere and the situation because of the unpleasant smell from smoke and it will be uncomfortable for study. Smoking can cause a certain kind of disease. Smoking has been proven to have many health risks associated with it, not only for the smoker but for those around the smoker as well (secondhand smoke). Smoking in the campus will also expose numerous people who are allergic to smoke, who are asthmatic, and who are already susceptible to cancer, etc by inhaling smoke. So, if there are so many students who are smoking in the campus, it means that they had created bad environment and don’t support the learning activities. On the other hand, some students think that smoking ban in campus is unfair and breaks the people’s right for smoking. They think that

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