Kudos to President George Dennison and Residence Life for recognizing the importance of a healthy campus. But anyone who has stopped smoking knows that smoking is a habit just like any habit. With the right motivation and the right amount of self control, anyone can do it. To inhabit a home with smokers is to live inside yellowing walls that often go unnoticed until a hanging picture is taken down and the contrast of color is exposed. Worst of all is the smell from cigarettes that clings to every article of clothing even after it's been washed several times.
Young children have nightmares about florescent yellow-teethed monsters who smell gross.
No matter how nice the monsters act there still seems to be something wrong. This is not an over-dramatization. And if the smell isn't reason enough, there are major health concerns. No one can trivialize hazards of people with lung problems like asthma and emphysema. It is wrong to subject nonsmokers to second-hand smoke.