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KAUFFMAN: Tobacco Free Campus Initiative makes light of students’ rights  

Jump to full article: The Maine Campus (University of Maine), 2010-03-18
Author: Sasha Kauffman

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shouldn’t students have the choice to smoke or not? . . .

The money to enforce this ban is going to come from rising tuition costs for smokers and nonsmokers alike. Should the large non-smoking population have to pay to stop the smoking population? Not if we don’t want to.

I think the right thing to do in this situation would be to let the students and faculty decide. It’s our money and our freedom; let us decide what to do with it.

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