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State and Private Schools to Implement Smoking Ban

State colleges and private schools in the US are now implementing smoking ban inside the school campuses. This after it found out that students smoke while in the campus to the detriment of those non-smokers. To make this realistic approach in schools, the state lawmakers approved this law so that dormitories are now seen to be smoke-free. In fact, it was reported that last summer a ban on smoking was already implemented at SUNY dorm. As a result many of the private schools also followed. However, in order to fully implement the new legislation Governor Paterson will also signed the smoking ban which is expected to take effect on August 15, 2008. Lawmakers who recently approved the legislation on smoking ban observe an alarming drop of students who have smoking habits. Here are some of the bad effects of smoking in the campuses.

• Health hazards – The reported smoking of students would eventually become health hazardous to students that are not smoking as they will be prone to nicotine intake when they inhale the cigarette smoke. Records in the medical files showed that there are the same risks between the smokers and non-smokers who are always inhaling the cigarette smoke because of their friends that are habitual smokers. This means this is really very harmful to the students in the campus most especially in air-conditioned rooms.

• Unwise money spending – Students who have always seen their classmates that are smokers are prone to temptations of also trying to smoke for curiosity sake and this is also a bad sign for smoker explosion in the campus if left unattended by school authorities. If this also happens students would become addicted to smokers like their classmates and unwise money spending could also occur. When students are influence by their classmates to smoking they would start asking more money from their parents to sustain their new vice. Experts that enrolled in online master degree in sciences reported that smoking in state colleges and universities are really alarming and this is also among the reasons many are now enrolling online schools to escape from the health hazards in traditional schools.

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