Friday, February 17, 2012

Essay arguing that campus smoking bans are unsafe | Inside Higher Ed

Essay arguing that campus smoking bans are unsafe | Inside Higher Ed


Honesty. The implication that tobacco smoke poses a significant health risk to others outdoors is disingenuous. A university’s first mission centers around truthful discourse, and we should be teaching our students to differentiate between significant risks (such as smoking) and totally insignificant risks (such as secon hand smoke outdoors).  We should be teaching our students to deconstruct misleading government and advocacy group statements, such as the claim that “these is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.” By such criteria, there is no safe level of exposure to sunlight either.

Wow,something I liked almost every single word in.
A total rarity for me.
Read and enjoy the common sense.