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    Stop whining about smokers on campus

    After the article “Smokers stray out of bounds” was published in the May 11 issue of La Voz, La Voz received and published two letters and one online post complaining about smokers on campus. And several whiners have been crying to the administration about people smoking out of bounds.

    Enough with the crying already! Nobody really cares, and some people pray to go deaf to never hear the pitiful cries again, or to crack their own skulls open to cure the headaches they’ve been given from the little tantrums.

    All the complaints are just the same, where someone just cries “Wah, wah, wah, people are smoking, wah, wah, wah make them stop, wah, wah, wah.”

    Rather than being childish and making a big fuss over nothing, try to act a bit more mature about your little discomfort with smokers.

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    The keyword in the smoking ban is that it’s a campus policy, not state law. So if you have a problem with people smoking, quit going to the police department and demanding to have the smokers arrested. Just try a little diplomacy to resolve the issue on your own.

    If you don’t smoke and want to feel all righteous about enforcing the campus free-smoke policy, then maybe you should “politely” inform the individuals about the smoke ban and have them put out their cigarettes or move to the designated smoking areas.

    The term “politely” means informing smokers nicely of their mistakes and treating them with decent respect, as opposed to being an anti-smoking Nazi jerk, who goes off on an embarrassing tantrum making a fool out of him- or herself.

    This behavior only makes smokers want to ignore you, and maybe even break your face for disturbing their peace.

    If, on your way to the parking lot, you encounter people smoking in the designated areas, and you have a problem passing next to them, walk around rather than covering your face and making an entire scene out of it.

    If smoking bothers you to the extent you can’t tolerate it anymore, then wear a gas mask instead of complaining and asking the administration to enforce a pointless ban. Why should hundreds of smokers be segregated to the parking lots when it’s easier for a few to wear gas masks?

    Another suggestion, stop living in that little fantasy world where you think you are going to live forever with unicorns and ponies, just because you don’t smoke. As Bill Hicks once said, “Non-smokers die every day. Good luck living.”

    But a little plea to all smokers: please don’t toss your butts on the ground as if it’s nothing. Littering makes our campus look horrible; instead, try to use the ashtrays in the smoking areas.

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