Editor,
I have to agree with Kristen Woodruff's letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo about UNM's extremely lenient smoking policy.
Thousands and thousands of nonsmokers have and die of lung cancer every year. Dana Reeve, Christopher Reeve's widow and a life-long nonsmoker, currently has smoker's lung cancer - she could be dead before long.
My mother recently passed away of smoker's lung cancer. My mom was a life-long nonsmoker, lived a healthy life and did her very best to avoid being in contact with second-hand smoke, yet she suffered greatly and died at the young age of 66 because people choose to smoke where others have to breathe.
Breathing is not a choice, but smoking is a choice. Unfortunately, many of us are exposed to second-hand smoke every day we are on campus.
It's disgusting that nonsmokers have to die of lung cancer. Dying of lung cancer is extremely painful - you want and need a breath, and you try and try to suck in some air, but your lungs are riddled with tumors and you suffocate.
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Arlene Ann
UNM staff
