Assignment 2: FIU bans smoking on campus

FIU bans smoking on campus for students, faculty and visitors but they cannot smoke in their own cars, what? I do not agree with banning smoking on campus period, I like the idea of having a secluded area to smoke even if it is a far distance but you can't smoke in your own car that is ridiculous. As a student and smoker myself, I can deal with not smoking on campus because it does bother people and causes second hand smoke. That is forcing people to quit something they do not want to quit. It is a personal decision. That is like making someone quit drinking soda, eating fast food, listening to music while they drive, etc. It's just outrageous. Let's say a professor has been smoking since their early twenties, how do you force them to quit now that their in their forties and fifties. The article says: "Students and faculty have had plenty of time to get used to the idea - on March 23 of last year, there was a campus-wide forum held to discuss the possibility of a ban and encourage smokers to start the process of quitting as early as July 1st." You cannot stop smoking from one day to another especially if they smoke three or more times a day. If smokers start a petition to un-ban smoking on campus, the University would have to seclude an area as I said earlier in this article. Myself, particularly would start that petition if I attended FIU and I smoke once a day, two times a day at most. Now imagine those who do it more and have done it longer.