One Bobcat thinks students asking other students to not smoke will be ineffective.
Because the tobacco-free initiative enforcement plan is not as effective as it should be, smokers will never listen to anyone and stop smoking on campus for many reasons.
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One reason is that students don’t have the power to apply the new rules on smokers. What is next to be done is the common question that might come up in a student’s mind when seeing smokers on campus facilities. The plan tries to encourage everyone to remind smokers not to smoke on campus, so if students asked smokers to stop smoking, smokers might always listen to their hearts and never listen to anyone asking for the opposite. Therefore, special employees need to be hired to catch smokers and take the appropriate action toward them.
Another reason is the absence of a committee handling the policy ensuring that the new rules are complied with. Generally, human beings like to be led by someone taking care of regulations and ensuring that everyone is following, otherwise, nobody would probably listen. For example, regulators in Saudi Arabia found that rules of banning smoking in restaurants’ indoor areas are still being disobeyed. Therefore, the government decided to close any restaurant as a punishment if it’s found serving smoking products or allowing smoking in indoor areas. So, it seems that regulators have an important role setting up punishments needed, improving regulations to be obeyed effectively and updating these accordingly.
In conclusion, the tobacco-free initiative needs adjustments to be made effective enough to completely abolish smoking on campus.
Lama Maddah is a student at Ohio University in the Ohio Program of Intensive English.
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