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PC going tobacco free  

Pikeville College announced Friday that the school will be tobacco-free by the fall semester of 2010.

The decision has not been endorsed by all faculty members, however.

Some students and faculty feel their rights are being infringed upon. One of those students is Cathy Coleman, a social work and psychology major, who says the decision to ban smoking from the school was done without getting student opinions first.

"We have rights as smokers just like people that don't smoke," she said. "We're paying to go to school here and we should be allowed to smoke if we choose to."

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