This shows that they feel strongly enough to support that smoking in public is harmful but not strongly enough that they should disallow it in individual rooms. I realized once I got here that even though nobody would be smoking in any of the academic buildings or my room specifically, I would still have to deal with the effects. I was lucky enough that, although I got two roommates instead of one, neither of them smokes. I was very relieved to find this out, especially considering one of my roommates had previously been a smoker. I was not lucky enough, however, to actually be able to avoid exposure to cigarette smoke because it comes from many other places in the dorm.
Many people believe that they have the right to smoke in their own rooms.
They feel that they should be able to make their own choice to smoke or not because it is their own living space. This is not correct, however, because although it may be their own room, it affects so many other people. Smoking should not be allowed at all in dorm buildings. In some dorms, the air circulates and everyone breathes the smoke, even if there is smoke in just one room. Smoke cannot be confined to a smoker s specific room.