Comments on: SUNY Canton Going Tobacco-Free in 2013

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:09:41 +0000

Although i am not a smoker i think this is a bad decition there are already so many laws and restrictions especialy on campus why take one more thing from are students. Smoking is a personal choice that people have to make and if that is what they want to do than that is their own risk that they take. Now you are making the people who do smoke go way out of their way between classes to have a smoke and cause them more money than it already does just to go to school to begin with. Just one more thing that the campus wants to take away from the students they should appreciate their own rights for once as a human being. But then again they say this is a free counrty yeah right. But i guess he has made his disciton on it so i garentee you will see a lot of the smokers transfering to different schools that cost the same amount anyway and they allow you to smoke anywhere on campus like suny potsdam for instance. This is coming from a non smoker and thats my opinon on it. Dont say its a free counrty when its not.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:00:45 +0000

Although I am not a smoker, I do not support the campus wide tobacco ban. The college already has a very restrictive tobacco policy in place, which with minor changes such as restricting smoking to the gazebos or open areas as was supposed be the case, there would be no affect on non smokers. The BOCES campii addopted a no smoking policy a while back, and the result was not people quitting, but driving in droves to parking lots nearby. This of course creates exhaust which does harm to the air in addition to their smoking. While some may be compelled to quit smoking over the next 3 semesters, the majority will not. Smoking is a personal choice, and it is not the college’s responsibility or right to force people to make such a decision.

By: Auto Tech

Auto Tech — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:24:31 +0000

It’s funny how Non-smokers BLAME the smokers. DONT FORGET, we are not the ones PRODUCING this ADDICTIVE product, we are the people who got tricked into an addiction. If our country is making all these new non-smoking laws and stuff then why not go to the root of the problem, the tobacco companies!!!!!!! The only way smoking will disappear for good is if the big companies are shut down, not if Joe Schmo doesn’t smoke on campus.

By: Class of 2011

Class of 2011 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:28:25 +0000

Id much rather see a spitter than walk into a doorway where there are 5 or 6 people smoking and you have to walk right through them. Chewing only harms the person chewing where as smoking harms the people around them. But to each their own

By: Claude

Claude — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:55:41 +0000

The question I have is this. A lot of places go tobacco free, I have no problem with that, but is this complete tobacco free or only smoking. Another issue I find is a big problem is chew, it’s worse than smoking and totally disgusting. Chew is bad for gum disease and bad teeth, and it’s horrible when you see a cup on a table or bottle with chew spit in it, or worse when you step in the stuff when walking around, and this goes on all over, public places, work places, campus’. So when the term tobacco free applies… Is this all tobacco product??