Any partial or complete restriction on smoking in housing, however, is an arbitrary restriction on student behavior. While smoking is a controversial habit many students find objectionable, the administration should not decide for students where they can smoke. Where students smoke is an issue best left to students themselves to decide without outside interference. The statistics illustrating smoking's harmful effects, both to smokers and those around them, are extensive. It is understandable and perfectly justifiable that nonsmokers may not want cigarettes smoked near them.
Nonsmokers have a right to clean air and good health.
There are far better solutions, however, than the University forcing smokers to go elsewhere. When students live together, they are responsible for establishing ground rules about behavior to prevent misunderstandings and conflict. First-year students must establish quickly a set of rules for their hall, deciding on quiet hours, visitor rules and other rules of simple courtesy. Roommates always must decide rules for their room, including whether one roommate may smoke in the room. It is common courtesy for roommates to respect each others' wishes regarding smoking.