Editor,
As a student with asthma, there is one lie on campus that I constantly am frustrated with: UNM is a smoke-free campus.
Yeah, right! Every day that I am on campus, I see smokers not only lighting up far from smoking areas, but walking wherever they feel like with their lit cigarettes.
Simple observation makes it clear that many smokers on campus have no respect for the smoking rules, or for those of us they subject to their smoke. For asthmatics this means that at any moment, any spot outside on campus could be quite bad for us to walk through.
To you smokers out there who ignore the rules: You have the right to ruin your own body with your smoke, but it’s high time you stopped ruining mine.
Ken Bagnul
UNM student
