The fact that many individuals smoke on campus is known to all. Though many of us are aware that smoking would cause series of problems including harms to ourselves and our classmates, generally, they don’t think it to be a big deal, what they care is enjoyment of smoking. Though I don’t smoke, I suggest Tobacco-Free Colleges and Universities. Thus, as far as I am concerned, the fact that undergraduate students smoke on campus has been one of issue the social concerns with and the administrators of universities, teachers, and parents are also paying attention on it. Solutions According to researches, many people die of smoking every year, including students. Statistics show that smoking related disease claim over 393,000 American lives each year. Though many people are aware of the harms smoking do to people’s health, it is not easy to abstained themselves from smoking. Though UND is also a tobacco-free college, I don’t think it to be sufficient to make rules to forbid people from smoking. We must do more in order to uproot smoking. The society’s role should be following. Firstly, though stores should not be forbidden from sailing tobacco to students, students on campus should be restricted by some rules. Secondly, money collected from the application of the above rules should be invested to encourage undergraduate to abstain from tobacco by advertisement and news. The universities should make following measures. Apart from punishing those who disobeyed the rules, universities should wipe out students’ addiction to tobacco psychologically and mentally since it is more likely that it is students’ psychological addiction which drives them to smoke without stops. Otherwise, only by punishing people when they betray rules, students’ addiction to smoking could not be wiped out persistently. Secondly, teachers and administrators should act as exemplars who have abstained from smoking successfully and would not smoke any more in the appearance of their students any more. To achieve this, the university should deepen teachers’ awareness of the harms of smoking to people’s health. In addition, the Student Union should be mobilized to cooperate with administrators to launch an anti-tobacco war, encouraging students’ determination to abstain from smoking. Individually, students should make four changes. Firstly, individual should have more knowledge about the threats of tobacco to their health, forming an aversion to tobacco at the same time, which means that they should make efforts not to think of and not to have access to tobacco at anytime and anywhere. Secondly, erected view of the world and that of life should be established, cultivating new and good ways of living habituation and psychology and enhancing individuals’ ability to confront hardships. Thirdly, proper ways of social relations should be established. In another words, individuals should not make friend with anyone until they figure out that he or she are good man. In addition, individuals should not smoking at any hardships and especially driven by their fellows inducement to smoke. Fourthly, individuals should comply with what are required by warning from anti-tobacco organizations and keep alarm of the threat of tobacco. Recommendations Based on my previous consideration, I think it is necessary to join the American Lung Association and establish detailed collaboration with this organization in order to help students abstain from smoking and make UND a Tobacco-free Colleges and Universities in the real sense.
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