With the smoking
rates increased, health officials have been thinking of ways to lower it. It is
the same in the University. Our school also held some campaign, hung the
placard, etc. But Do these policy really guarantee and satisfying both smokers &
non-smokers?
Last year, our school
council has pledged the policy; 'Smokers + Non-smokers'. Part of this, they
pushed ahead with smoking booth. Smoking booth is the box that smokers can
smoke in it. With only meaningless discussion, school council didn't get any
result. And also the pledge 'Smokers +Non smokers' was fogged.
All area within the
school is non-smoking section. But most students don’t know about this and keep
smoking in school. Prohibiting smoking and applying sanction to who smoke
within the school or acknowledging it and make smoking area for them; School
most choose one. But they don’t take any action. As a result of this vague
attitude of school, both smokers & non-smokers experience inconvenience.
=>smoking booth in Jungand & dongkuk university
Other schools make
efforts to promote both smokers & non-smoker’s right. For example, Jungang,
Korea, Seogang, Donguk University have already installed smoking booth. Junang
University designated the smoking area and put the sticker to there and Seogang
University also designated 23 smoking area within the school. Although these
policies have already been enforced in other school, however, we don’t have any
actual plan or policy to guarantee smokers & non-smoker’s rights. Holding anti-smoke
campaign is all the efforts that our school did. But most students had never
even heard of it. According to the survey, only 4 about in 100 students know
about smoking policy in our school, and 78 about in 100 students have
complaints about it.
Because of this,
there is conflict between smokers and non-smokers. “I don’t like a whiff of
smoke. But when I scoured in school, I cannot help breathing passive smoking.
It’s very unpleasant.” said Kim, a senior of business school. But smokers also
have something to say. “I don’t want to cause harm to the people too. But there
is nowhere to smoke in our school and our school has no idea of guaranteeing
our rights.” said Lee, a freshman of business school.”
I think our school should
get interested in this problem and do efforts to solve it. But our school seems
to have no interest about this. So student’s role is important. We have to
require our rights and make the school be heard of our voice. Other school had
already showed how to treat this problem and ameliorated the situation. Installing
smoking booth, designating smoking area must be enforced first. Because it is
most easy way to ensure both smokers and non smoker’s right. Being separated from
smokers, non-smokers don’t breathe passive smoking anymore. And smokers don’t
need to find somewhere to smoke and smoke comfortable.
Otherwise, above
mentioning, most students don’t know about our school’s policy. If the school
hold the campaign or do any action, it should be noticed to students. Although
the great campaign held, it is no use if the students don’t know about it.
Seeing other schools
or government policies, guaranteeing both smokers & non smoker’s rights is
current trend. But most students think that our school gets left behind in this
trend. If we do efforts together, our right will ensure and the situation will
change.
1.
http://news.donga.com/3/all/20130729/56716535/1
2.
http://news.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20121008000264&md=20121011003514_BK
=> First video is introducing Jungang Univeristy's smoking booth and area. Next video and link no.1 are about anti-smoking campaign of HUFS. Link no.2 is about current trend that ensure both smokers and non-smokers in other university.
