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Posted by Usako, on Nov. 03, 2007 02:33PM I'm tired of walking around campus and getting smoke blown in my face. I honestly wish there were designated smoking areas that were actually enforced. Too many times am I walking outside the art building trying to go to class and people are standing right next to the doors smoking. I prefer not to be inhaling second hand smoke, thank you very much. It makes me gag, almost puke, every time. Why should I have to reroute my walks to class just so I can have fresh air? I think it's more important to let people appreciate and breathe in healthy, fresh air than to accommodate those who are smoking their life away and bringing others' health down with them.    I also wish bus stops on campus were smoke free. I can't stand sitting at a bus stop while someone takes in their God-knows-which-number cigarette they've had for the day. I don't have a choice but to sit there and let them do it while i breathe in the sickening air around me.    Also, there's been too many times where I've been at my boyfriend's room in Ridgeway Gamma, and people are smoking outside on the steps down below. The windows in those areas aren't very good, and I think the residents have every right to be able to have their window open OR closed without smelling that crap.    I still respect people who smoke just as any other person. But when they are smoking in areas where I and many other non-smokers have to sit or walk every day, I don't feel they are respecting us (in turn, making it very hard to respect them). We chose not to smoke for a reason, and second hand smoke isn't helping that reason in any way.     Smoking areas would work just fine if people actually used them. Non-smokers would know which areas to avoid, and smokers would have an area to smoke as they please. I'm sure Western could designate enough areas to accommodate smokers. It's not like everyone smokes at once.    You say it's your civil liberty to smoke? I feel it's my civil liberty to feel clean and healthy. Just saying ;p There's two sides to every story.