Isn\u2019t smoking such a great habit? You\u2019re occupied. You\u2019re obviously exercising an oral-fixation and best of all it\u2019s a great chaser to some harmless binge drinking on weekends.<\/p>\n
As you might have guessed, I\u2019m a habitual smoker, and my favorite brand is Dunhill Reds (because menthol is for high school kids). I don\u2019t pretend to ignore the fact that I risk a few ailments like nicotine stained fingers, dropping a lit cherry on my shirt and burning my stomach, shortness of breath \u2014 while walking up the devilish North Campus cement stair-cases \u2014 and of course, good ol\u2019 cancer.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m aware of these risks just as I\u2019m aware of students crossing the street buried in their iPhones\u2014 texting while I\u2019m in my car driving and probably smoking too.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a smoker you know what I mean when I say, \u201cMan, I need a cigarette after that lecture on numbers and symbols I\u2019m supposed to understand.\u201d It\u2019s one hell of a momentary stress reliever when you suck on some fancy red European cigarettes while you look over notes and wonder, \u201cWhat the hell is all this stuff? Calligraphy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, MDC has seen fit to push us smokers off-campus just to take a few puffs.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll admit, before I started smoking at around age 6, the smell of cigarette smoke was anything but pleasant. I can sympathize with all you nose-covering, smoke waving and even mock-coughing health freaks when you distance yourselves from the smokers to breathe fresh air, which must apparently be like gasping for air after nearly drowning.<\/p>\n
I have always preferred to distance myself from non-smokers when I smoke. Of course not everyone is that courteous, such as people who run into you while texting on their IPhones.<\/p>\n
Is a complete ban of on-campus smoking really necessary? There are esteemed people on our campus in fancy suits who don\u2019t want to carry someone elses nicotine breath on them. But there are also some overworked students and even faculty who take pleasure in a lunch break cigarette.<\/p>\n
Come on MDC, with the financial-aid offices busier than a night club and 50 percent\u00a0of students struggling with MAT1033\/calligraphy class, it isn\u2019t far out at all to say we aren\u2019t exactly the happiest bunch of schools this side of the equator.<\/p>\n
A designated smoking area would be just as good as cutting the prices on the cafeteria food. If we\u2019re paying into the system out of pocket or accumulating a notorious school loan debt, you should be happy we don\u2019t \u201cOccupy\u201d your HR offices and demand our taxes\/your salaries to buy more cigarettes.<\/p>\n
A person\u2019s health is their own problem. So point me to where I can sit and smoke and leave me alone while I study calligraphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Isn\u2019t smoking such a great habit? You\u2019re occupied. You\u2019re obviously exercising an oral-fixation and best of all it\u2019s a great chaser to some harmless binge drinking on weekends. As you might have guessed, I\u2019m a habitual smoker, and my favorite brand is Dunhill Reds (because menthol is for high school kids). I don\u2019t pretend to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forum"},"yoast_head":"\n